This page features resources related to African Americans in North Carolina during the 17th and 18th century. Researchers will find documents pertaining to arrival of Africans, slavery, the Colonial period. Subject terms, alternate titles, and significant dates within the publication are included under each resource description.
Crow, Jeffrey J. and Paul D. Escott and Flora Hatley Wadelington. History of African Americans in North Carolina, 2011.
This document provides the history of African Americans in North Carolina. It covers the colonial period through the election of the first Black President Barack Obama in 2008.
Subjects: African Americans, 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century, Slavery, Reconstruction, Civil Rights, Society and Family Life, Elections
The rich heritage of African Americans in North Carolina, 2000.
This document provides a short history of African Americans in North Carolina as well as a map of some of the historic sites relevant to African Americans. Researchers will also find names of individuals who contributed to the "rich heritage" of our great state.
Subjects: African Americans, Social Life and Customs, Civil Rights, Historic and Cultural Sites
Watson, Alan D. African Americans in early North Carolina : a documentary history, 2005.
This publication draws upon seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, enslaved and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining the yoke of slavery, enslaved resistance, manumission, and the challenges facing free Blacks.
Subjects: African Americans, Slavery, 17th Century, 18th Century, Colonial period
Alternate Title: Documentary history