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This volume draws on 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 arrive 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.Watson, Alan D. is the author of 'African Americans in Early North Carolina: A Documentary History', published 2005 under ISBN 9780865263130 and ISBN 0865263132.
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