LibGuides: New Hanover County Slave Deeds: Recommended Reading

Colonial North Carolina - Journal Articles and Book Reviews

All items below are linked from Cape Fear Community College subscription databases. If accessing from off-campus, you will be prompted for your MyCFCC username and password.

Memories of Carolinian Immigrants: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present
Lixl, Andreas. Memories of Carolinian Immigrants: Autobiographies, Diaries, and Letters from Colonial Times to the Present. University Press of America, Lanham, 2009.
White People, Indians, and Highlanders : Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Vol. 40, No. 1 (Summer, 2009), pp. 110-111
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The article reviews the book "White People, Indians, and Highlanders: Tribal Peoples and Colonial Encounters in Scotland and America," by Colin G. Calloway.

Colonial Memoirs, Journals & Letters

Janet Schaw, Journal of a lady of quality; being the narrative of a journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the years 1774 to 1776 (c1921)
John Lawson, 1674-1711, A New Voyage to Carolina; Containing the Exact Description and Natural History of That Country: Together with the Present State Thereof. And a Journal of a Thousand Miles, Travel'd Thro' Several Nations of Indians.
REMAINDER OF TITLE : Giving a Particular Account of Their Customs, Manners, &c.
No Author, The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe. Comprehending a Distinct Account of His Country and Family; His Elder Brother's Voyage to France, and Reception there; the Manner in Which Himself Was Confided by His Father
REMAINDER OF TITLE : to the Captain Who Sold Him; His Condition While a Slave in Barbadoes; the True Cause of His Bring Redeemed; His Voyage from Thence; and Reception Here in England. Interspers'd Throughout with Several Historical Remarks on the Commerce of the European Nations, Whose Subjects Frequent the Coast of Guinea. To which is Prefixed a Letter from the Author to a Person of Distinction, in Reference to Some Natural Curiosities in Africa; as Well as Explaining the Motives which Induced Him to Compose These Memoirs.
John Spencer Bassett, 1867-1928, Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina.
Letters of James Murray, Loyalist
Letters written between 1713 and 1781, compiled and edited by Nina Moore Tiffany in 1901.

Secondary Historical Documents

History of New Hanover County and the Lower Cape Fear region, 1723-1800 (1909)

Digital Library on American Slavery

Digital Library on American Slavery
The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is an expanding resource compiling independent collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface. DLAS houses tens of thousands of records relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C. as well as a number of northern states. DLAS contains detailed personal information about over 100 thousand individuals, including enslaved people, enslavers, free people of color, and more.

The goal of the Digital Library on American Slavery is to bring together and make freely accessible public records related to enslavement, with an emphasis upon the names and stories of the enslaved. DLAS strives to be a documentation project, not an interpretive effort. The team works with researchers to make data sets available for personal research.

Each project housed within DLAS includes a data dictionary and user guide tailored to that data set or type of record. A detailed history of each project is also available.

Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery & Justice

The report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice draws on a wide array of historical documents, from the records of slaving voyages to personal correspondence to student commencement orations. Working in collaboration with Brown's Center for Digital Initiatives and the Scholarly Technology Group, the committee was able to create a digital archive of these materials, enabling students and interested members of the public to join it in its exploration of the early history of our university, state, and nation.