African-American Resources for North Carolina

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Links to online resources for black heritage in North Carolina.

Contents 1 History and General Resources 2 Resources by Location 2.1 Beaufort County 2.2 Buncombe County 2.3 Charleston 2.4 Craven County 2.5 Guilford County 2.6 Mecklenburg County 2.7 Pitt County 2.8 Randolph County 3 Slavery Resources 4 Carolina 4.1 Slave Markets 4.2 First Hand Accounts and Other Reports 4.3 Slave Cemeteries

History and General Resources

• NC African Americans in the Revolutionary War
• History of Slavery in North Carolina at Wikipedia
• Digital Library on American Slavery at University of North Carolina: Greensboro
• Sierra Leonean American
• African and American Indian Slavery in Carolina
• North Carolina Plantations
• Black Wide-Awake Wilson County, NC

Resources by Location

Beaufort County

• Zion Chapel Episcopal Church Records Contains baptisms of slaves. Some list parent's names. Some confirmations of "colored" people starting on image 70. "Colored" communicants on images 79, 80. "Colored" marriages on image 96, "Colored" burials on image 109, 110

Buncombe County

• Shiloh Cemetery to get Digital Database
• Special collections: Some Notes on Slavery in Asheville and Buncombe County
• In 1850 Buncombe County had 1,717 slaves and 107 Free Blacks. The total population was 13,425.
• In 1860 Buncombe County had and 1,907 slaves and 283 slave owners and 111 Free blacks. The total population was 12,654.

Charleston

• Slave Manifests for Charleston
• The Gullah, Rice Slaves
• Thomas Middleton Plantation book 1734-1813
• Index by name of over 4,000 enslaved people who are mentioned in the old Deed Books of Orange County, North Carolina
• Hidden Town Project To Research and Reveal the History of Enslaved and Free People of African Descent in Salem

Craven County

• Property Deed Database Search the index for deeds dated 1739 to 1983 and view the images of those deeds.

Guilford County

• Guilford County Fire Insurance Survey 1937 - lists the "colored" schools in Guilford County, North Carolina.

Mecklenburg County

• Cedar Grove Cemetery AA abandoned cemetery

Pitt County

• Richard F J H Williams Probate (Pitt County, North Carolina, names slaves)

Randolph County

See: African-American Resources for Randolph County

Slavery Resources

• North Carolina Runaway Slave Notices, 1750-1865 at The Digital Library on American Slavery, a Collaboration between the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro & the F.D. Bluford Library at North Carolina A & T State
• People Not Property: Slave Deeds at The Digital Library on American Slavery, a Collaboration between the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro & the F.D. Bluford Library at North Carolina A & T State
• Race and Slavery Petitions Project at The Digital Library on American Slavery, a Collaboration between the University Libraries of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro & the F.D. Bluford Library at North Carolina A & T State
• Digital Library on American Slavery
• Middleton Place, Slave Schedules
• Thomas Middleton Plantation book 1734-1813
• Fold3 free images of Estate Inventories for Charleston, South Carolina, 1732-1872
• Roberson Family Papers
• Slave Deeds of North Carolina
• Slavery and the Making of a University
• North Carolina Genealogical AA Project
• Slave Records Chatham County wills, deeds, Bible records
• Roberson Family Papers

Carolina

• Without Indenture: Index to White Slave Children
• White Indians
• Aquila: Documenting Runaway Slaves Project
• Mulatto Diaries
• The Gullah, Rice Slaves
• Sierra Leonean American
• Middleton Place, Slave Schedules
• Thomas Middleton Plantation book 1734-1813
• NPS: Sullivan's Island, the African American Ellis Island
• American Indian Slavery in Carolina
• Lawton Slave HolderSC
• Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1780-1820
• Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1820-1860
• Marion County, SC Slave Records, 1860-
• Slaves Named in Marion County Wills, 1798-1855
• Fort Rose, Carolina Slaves Brought to Florida
• Slaves, Plantation of James Joyner Smith
• The Hands of Hampton, Slavery in a St. John Santee Rice Plantation has a list of slaves by name
• Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC, 1785 to 1827, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2002

Slave Markets

• Charleston Slave Mart Museum
• Slave Market, Fayettville, NC

First Hand Accounts and Other Reports

• Eyewitness to History Savannah Slave Auction of 1859
• PBS The Weeping Time, A Slave Aution in Savannah, GA
• Savannah and the Slave Business
• Unearthing the Weeping Time
• Slaves War - A Directory of Witnesses
• Sec of the Interior - Suppression of Slave Trade and Colonization " any "Negroes, mulattos, or persons of color" found aboard vessels seized off the coast of Africa and relocate them to what is now known as Liberia."
• The Souls of African American Children: New Amsterdam by Joyce D. Goodfriend professor of history at the University of Denver, is the author of Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730 (Princeton, 1992)
• Slave to Free National Humanities Center; be sure to check out other sections of this web site.

Slave Cemeteries

Note: Slave and free African Americans are typically both buried in the cemeteries listed below as freed men continued to work in the same area.

• Find A Grave, Slave Cemeteries
• South Carolina African American Cemeteries and Graveyards
• Drayton Hall Ashley River, SC dating from 1790
• McLeod Plantation Slave Cemetery South Carolina
• Find A Grave Middleton Place Plantation Slave Cemetery
• Blackstock Slave CemeteryFort Mill, SC
• Laurel Grove Cemetery South slave burials
• Slave Burial Ground at Calhoun Square Savannah, Ga
• Christ Church Slave Cemetery St. Simon's, GA
• Sullivan Island Cemetery Coastal Georgia
• Black Swamp Cemetery Beaufort, SC
• Find A Grave Happy Hill Cemetery "Listed as a Negro Cemetery in the Gallery Guide at https://www.oldsalem.org/selections-from-across-the-creek/"