Ellen and ECU have been putting together in dealing with the history of tobacco. It's a great pleasure to be here and it's also very impressive to see the work that Dr. It is with a great deal of pleasure I give to you Dr. He has a biography of George Mason being put out by the University of Virginia Press this coming summer. He's also published on the black born in slavery rather widely. His articles that would be of interest to us in particular would include "The United States and African Explorations," "The Tobacco Trade with France: 1787 to 1795," "Instructions to a Tobacco Factor: 1725," these and other articles. He has published in Mid-America, Maryland Historical Magazine, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. In publications he comes with very distinguished credentials. More recently, he has also served with the committee that has been involved in our bicentennial celebration here, the beginnings of it in both of course the city and the beginning of the county celebration, as director of the Montgomery County, Maryland, bicentennial, and he has published a volume for that bicentennial. In 1966 he took over as archivist and director of research at Gunston Hall-that's George Mason's home-Virginia.
He has a connection with North Carolina, having taught at Western Carolina University in the past. He got his AB at Fordham University, has his master's from Georgetown and also his PhD from Georgetown University. MacMaster is a native of New York, born in Flushing, New York.
We are indeed fortunate to have as our first speaker Dr. This afternoon the general theme will be the tobacco export trade in the twentieth century. This morning the general theme is tobacco trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. noted from your program, the sessions are divided into two basic parts. Introduction: - Manuscript Collection, third annual Tobacco History Symposium held March 20, 1975, the topic, "The Tobacco Export Trade and its Impact on the North Carolina Area," sponsored by the Institute for Historical Research in Tobacco.
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