JOHN BURGWYN MACRAE PAPERS, #478, 1866-1916
Diary, letterpress copybooks, speeches, and miscellaneous volumes and papers of MacRae, a
Jackson, North Carolina, lawyer and plantation owner. Diary entries describe daily events in
Jackson, including MacRae's long-term relationship with a local black woman, with whom he had
two children (1894-1897). The collection also contains handwritten versions of four political
speeches given by MacRae, including a speech concerning "The Supremacy of the White Race over
the Colored Race" (1866- 1905).