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This tiny mention of a train trip to school was unseen for 131 years until UNC student Thomas Haire found it through Newspapers.com, which is digitizing microfilms of newspapers in the North Carolina Collection of the UNC Libraries. Students in Professor Robert Allen’s first-year seminar researched the lives of black artisans, free and enslaved, from New Bern, N.C.