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African Americans in early North Carolina : a documentary history

"Draws upon seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents are used to outline the arrival of Africans, mechanisms for maintaining the yoke of 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 historians, genealogists, and anyone curious about he lives of black North Carolinians during the earliest years of the state's history"--Back cover.

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