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North Carolina County Records

Records of slave ownership may be public or private. Public records are those created by the owner as required by local, state, and national governments. Local records, i.e., the county records in North Carolina, are the most fruitful for genealogists. These record marriages of owners, deeds of gift or deeds of trust of slaves, purchase or sale of slaves, transfers of land among family members, property, and records of actions in the local county courts.

 

The miscellaneous records of some North Carolina counties include some slave records. William L. Byrd III and John H. Smith, for example, have transcribed records for a number of counties in the series North Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Color, published by Heritage Books.

 

Most early North Carolina county records are housed in the State Archives of North Carolina.

 

Slaves and Slaveowners of Stokes County
Records of some North Carolina counties

 

 

 

 

-> North Carolina Books on Slavery

 

-> North Carolina County Records

 

-> North Carolina Family Records

 

-> North Carolina Slave Narratives

 

-> North Carolina Slave Owners

 

-> North Carolina Slavery Plantations

 

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