Fort Macon Lecture
“Hands are wanted to work in the fort”: Black North Carolinians at Fort Macon in the Civil War Era
Join us as Antwain K. Hunter explores his research about the Black laborers at Fort Macon during the Civil War. North Carolina relied on these Black men—the bulk of whom were free people—to get the Fort ready for the war. The presentation will cover:
- Who these men were
- The physically demanding labor they performed
- The reasons they undertook this labor in a Confederate state
- Why their efforts should matter to us in the present day.
Antwain K. Hunter is an assistant professor of history at UNC-Chapel Hill and earned his PhD at Penn State, studying in the Richards Civil War Era Center. His book, A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865 is on the legal and social dynamics of Black North Carolinians’ firearm use and will be published with UNC Press next year. Hunter is currently researching free black people’s labor in Confederate North Carolina and a separate book project that examines Black people’s alcohol use in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina.
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This event is presented by the Carteret CC Foundation and Black History Committee.
