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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick
Born near Salisbury, NC, Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was a graduate of the University of North Carolina and was later hired to teach chemistry. Although he was a respected teacher, in 1856 during the presidential election, it was rumored that he voted for Fremont. Students and alumni protested his vote against slavery and eventually were able to persuade the Trustees to dismiss Hedrick from service at UNC. Text includes correspondence and newspaper articles that represent both sides of the conflict.
Benjamin Hedrick's Truth
Novel about the life of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, a University of North Carolina professor who was dismissed from the university for his antislavery views.
Benjamin Sherwood Correspondence
This collection contains four letters written by Benjamin Sherwood to his grandson Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick (Cambridge, MA) dated 8/24/1851, 12/20/185, 3/28/1852 and 1/9/1853 and one letter received from Hedrick dated 9/30/1852. Sherwood's letters discuss his emigration from North Carolina via Indiana, Iowa's natural resources, farming activities, and national politics. In the letter of January 9th, 1853 he writes extensively on his views regarding protective tariffs, and states he is a colonizationist with regard to the issue of slavery. Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick--a noted chemist who would eventually be dismissed from the faculty of University of North Carolina for his anti-slavery position--writes of his opposition to protective tariffs in his letter. During the time of the letters Hedrick was working at the office of the "Nautical Almanac" in Cambridge. Letters have been transcribed.
A Traitor and a Scoundrel
In 1856, Benjamin Hedrick broke with his white North Carolinian peers by taking an antislavery position on the question of the incorporation of the territories. This biography tells the story of how developed that position, the loss of his position as a professor of chemistry and his subsequent exil
