African Americans in early North Carolina : a documentary history compiled and edited by Alan D. Watson

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, Alan D., 1942-

North Carolina. Office of Archives and History.

Series:

Colonial records of North Carolina. Special series

The colonial records of North Carolina. Special series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--North Carolina--History--17th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--North Carolina--History--18th century.

North Carolina--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

xiv, 200 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Raleigh [N.C.] : Office of Archives and History, N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2005.

Summary:

"Draws upon seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining the yoke of slavery, slave resistance, manumission, and the challenges facing free blacks. This book presents in an accessible format a variety of primary sources, which are suitable for classroom use and have appeal for historians, genealogists, and anyone curious about he lives of black North Carolinians during the earliest years of the state's history"--Back cover.

Contents:

Slavery and the slave trade

Slaves: property, labor, and emancipation

Family

The slave code

Resistance to slavery

Discipline and punishment

Urban slavery

Free African Americans.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.

Local Notes:

The William Lanier North Carolina Collection

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection.

ISBN:

0865263132

9780865263130

OCLC:

62488661