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21) North Carolina Freedman's Saving and Trust Company records

Author

Reaves, Bill

Publisher

North Carolina Genealogical Society

Pub. Date

c1992

Physical Desc

x, 588 p.

Language

English

Description

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The Freedman's Savings & Trust Company was originally created to assist Afro-American soldiers in the Civil War and other freed slaves.

22) North Carolina African-American Baptist research sources

Publisher

Wake Forest University

Pub. Date

1993

Physical Desc

3, 6, 6 leaves.

Language

English

23) Melungeons yesterday and today

Author

Bible, Jean Patterson

Publisher

J.P. Bible

Pub. Date

c1975

Physical Desc

[xvi], 125 p. : ill., ports.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

Description

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The Melungeons are of uncertain mixed ancestry living in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina. These people were sometimes known as The Blue People, because they are part negro, Indian, and other nationalities.

24) North Carolina General Assembly sessions records: slaves and free persons of color, 1709-1789

Author

Byrd, William L., III

Publisher

Heritage Books, Inc

Pub. Date

c2001

Physical Desc

ix, 225 p.

Language

English

25) Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina from the colonial period to about 1820

Author

Heinegg, Paul

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

Description

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Genealogies of free blacks in the states of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina.

26) The chalice and the covenant: a history of the New Covenant Baptist Association, 1868-1975

Author

Sexton, Mark S

Publisher

Hunter Pub. Co

Pub. Date

c1976

Physical Desc

xvi, 319 p. : ill., ports.

Language

English

27) Paths toward freedom: a biographical history of blacks and Indians in North Carolina

Author

Emory, Frank

Publisher

Center for Urban Affairs, North Carolina State University

Pub. Date

1976

Physical Desc

240, [4] p. : ill.

Language

English

28) North Carolina's free people of color, 1715-1885

Author

Milteer, Warren E, Jr

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press

Pub. Date

2020.

Physical Desc

301 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 x 16 cm (10 x 7 in).

Language

English

Description

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"In North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715-1885, Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as 'negroes,' 'mulattoes,' 'mustees,' 'Indians,' 'mixed-bloods,' or simply 'free people of color.' From the colonial period through Reconstruction, lawmakers passed legislation that curbed the rights and privileges of these nonenslaved residents, from prohibiting their testimony against whites to barring...

29) The free negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860

Author

Franklin, John Hope

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Pub. Date

c1995

Physical Desc

xiv, 275 p. : ill., maps.

Language

English

30) Highland Scots in North Carolina: a previously unpublished manuscript by Angus Wilton McLean, Governor of North Carolina 1925-1929

Author

McLean, Angus Wilton

Publisher

North Carolina Scottish Heritage Society

Pub. Date

1993

Physical Desc

v, 470 p. : port.

Language

English

31) Scots and Scotch Irish: frontier life in North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky

Author

Hoefling, Larry J

Publisher

Inlandia Press

Pub. Date

Physical Desc

156 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Language

English

Description

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"They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The descendants of Scotsmen who had colonized the Irish Kingdom of Ulster, they lived for several generations on Irish soil before heading across the Atlantic and the backwoods of America. They founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and the Yadkin River valley of western North Carolina, eventually...

32) Index to the history of the German Settlements & the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina

Author

Elbert Ivey Memorial Library (Hickory, North Carolina)

Publisher

Elbert Ivey Memorial Library

Pub. Date

[199-?]

Physical Desc

18 leaves.

Language

English

Description

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Index: History of the German settlements & the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina [by G.D. Bernheim].

33) Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia: including the family histories of more than 80% of those counted as "all other free persons" in the 1790 and 1800 census

Author

Heinegg, Paul

Language

English

34) African American and Cherokee nurses in Appalachia: a history, 1900-1965

Author

Pollitt, Phoebe

Series

Contributions to southern Appalachian studies volume 37

Publisher

McFarland & Company Inc., Publishers

Pub. Date

2016.

Physical Desc

xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 15 cm (9 x 6 in).

Language

English

Description

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"Few career opportunities were available to minority women in Appalachia in the first half of the 20th century. Nursing offered them a respected, relatively well paid profession and their work was important in challenging healthcare inequities in the region"-- Provided by publisher.

35) The Journal of Old North State Medical Society

Language

English

36) Charn cuimhne: to our Scots of North Carolina

Author

Smith, Evelyn Futch

Publisher

E.F. Smith

Pub. Date

1969

Physical Desc

309 p.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Online Content

Description

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John Smith (b.ca.1700) married Margaret Gilchrist about 1717, and emigrated from Scotland to Cumberland County, North Carolina, where he died before March 1749. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.