JAMES HENRY HARRIS PAPERS, 1848-1890 (P.C. 1319)
Papers of Harris, a free black from Granville County and Republican legislator. Papers
include an affidavit proving Harris to be a free black; his appointment as a recruiting
officer in Indiana to raise black troops during the Civil War; materials relating to the
Union League; his appointment to solicit for the New England Freedmen's Aid Society; his
appointment as a Raleigh city commissioner; notification of his election as a presidential
elector (1872); and broadsides and endorsements of Harris as a
candidate for Congress and as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions.
