Research Guides: African American History: History of Slavery

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Digital Library on American Slavery
Excellent source from UNC-Greensboro. Includes slavery petitions, runaway slave advertisements, and slave deeds.
Slave Narrative Series
Interviews collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writer's Project (later called WPA). These interviews are also available online via the Library of Congress.
North Carolina Slave Narratives
WPA interviews specific to NC.

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The collection includes oral history interviews, slave narratives, letters, memoirs, literary works, and artifacts.
Sabin Americana
Sabin Americana is a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Includes original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection
An online historical collection of 3.5 million pages of digitized content from over 1,000 North Carolina county newspapers.

America's Historical Newspapers
Search or browse the full-text of over 1,000 early American newspapers published between 1690 and 1922. This database includes titles from all fifty states and there are nine titles for North Carolina alone. Also included are several early newspapers in languages such as French and German.
African-American Newspapers
A collection of U.S. newspaper articles published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience, including: life in the Antebellum South, growth of the Black church, the Jim Crow Era, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights movement, political and economic empowerment and more. All full text.

Chronicling America
Library of Congress digitization project of regional newspapers. Extensive coverage is late 19th century and early 20th century.
South Carolina Historical Newspapers
From the University of South Carolina

U.S. Congressional Serial Set
The US Congressional Serial Set is a series of volumes that contain reports and documents of the House and Senate. In addition to congressional publications are reports submitted to the Congress by government agencies and commissions.

North Carolina Session Laws and Resolutions Passed by the General Assembly
The laws and resolutions passed by a single session of the NC Legislature. 1817-2011 available online. Also available REFERENCE KFN .425.N6 (older issues in Special Collections)

NC Gazetteer (via NCpedia.org)
"The North Carolina Gazetteer is a geographical dictionary in which an attempt has been made to list all of the geographic features of the state in one alphabet."
Encyclopedia of North Carolina (online via NCPedia)
Mountain Masters Mountain Masters: Slaveholding in Western North Carolina