AFRICAN AMERICANS IN EARLY NORTH CAROLINA: A Documentary History, Watson, Alan D., editor

— $15.00pb

200 pgs. index. 2005. Middle school, high school.
This volume draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. Documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining 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 anyone curious about the lives of black North Carolinians during the state’s earliest years.
Curriculum Applications: 8th & 11th Grade Social Studies-primary sources, antebellum era

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