This June 1775 page from the North Carolina Gazette contextualizes Philip Dawe's satirical critique of the October 1774 Edenton Tea Party. It shows explicit references to slavery—underlining the continued importance of the practice to the North Carolinian economy—attached to speeches regarding the state of "liberty in the American colonies," both supportive and skeptical of the Patriots. This contrast highlights a refinement-barbarism duality within the North Carolinian Patriot movement. The slave advertisement also suggests Stanly, although a prominent businessmen with ties to Northern metropolises, was not divorced from the slave-culture of the South. Although the Gazette was also distributed across the North American colonies, and published international news from Britain, explicit references to slavery tie the newspaper directly back to North Carolina and its largely provincial, agrarian economy. The Gazette was also North Carolina's only newspaper between 1768 and 1776, and yet very few issues survive, further creating a chasm between North Carolinian Patriotism and Patriotism in New England.