Excerpt from Tarheel Junior Historian, Vol. 6: September, 1966Thus, we can see that the existence of man depended largely upon what he could plant, cultivate, and harvest on his own land. To keep himself and his family alive, the farmer in antebellum North Carolina truly needed to be also a hunter, a trapper, a carpenter, a mechanic, a business man.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.