Please feel free to send in any information you would like to see added to these links!  More information to these pages as found or submitted.

• Onslow County: African American Sailors & Soldiers – blog by Richard Phillips
• Slave Narratives – project by the Works Project Administration in the 1930s to interview former slaves.  Read more about the project at the Library of Congress website.
  • Hattie Rogers – [pdf] Hattie grew up as a slave on a plantation on the White Oak River.
• Runaway notice of Simbo, slave of Francis Burns – dated August 1800

References for African-American Research

• African-American Family History Resources
• Cyndi’s List for African-American Resources
• Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
• Institute for African-American Research
• W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African-American Research