 | Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina |  |
INTRODUCTION
The Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a long tradition for documenting the history and culture of the American South. Because African Americans have played an integral and leading role in forming that history, records relevant to African-American life and culture constitute a prominent portion of the department's holdings of nearly 14.5 million items.
The majority of the collections documented in this guide are plantation records from the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction period. Entries for these collections discuss topics such as slaves as plantation labor, and later, the hiring of freedmen. There are also several twentieth-century collections described that cover topics such as desegregation, bussing, race relations, and civil rights.
The entries are arranged alphabetically by collection name. Listed after the collection
name is the collection number and the date span of the entire collection. The entries
describe only the portion of the collection pertaining to African Americans, with complete
summary records for collections available through the library's online catalog. The full
texts of selected unclib
inventories (i.e., folder and box lists) are present on the
library's INTERNET server.
This guide would not be possible without the hard work of a number of staff, both past and present. We are especially grateful to our compilers. The project was first started by Katrin Hardikar, an NC State University intern. The bulk of the work was done by Lauren Kerr, a UNC-CH graduate student. Enola Guthrie also assisted with the data entry.
| Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina | |