Documentation of Enslaved People

Within Mecklenburg County: 

• Presenting slave life : the interpretation of slavery and its place in public history and at historic Latta Plantation LD3950.T5 M665 2008 - Master's thesis about how to interpret the lives of the enslaved at Latta Plantation.
• Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick on the Legacy of Slavery in Mecklenburg County - Native Charlotteans Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick discuss their ongoing journey together after discovering that their family histories were interwoven through the institution of slavery. Although they were both classmates at Myers Park High School in the mid-1960s, it was not until almost fifty years later that a newspaper article recounting the injustice Jimmie Lee had faced as a thwarted contender for the Shrine Bowl brought the two classmates into contact with each other. As their friendship grew the Kirkpatricks stumbled on their shared history as the descendants of slave owner and slave, which launched their public dialogue to explore the implications and legacy of slavery both in their personal lives and in Mecklenburg County.

Outside of Mecklenburg County:

• Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage PS866.W5 Z5827 2011 - Biography of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book.
• The Echo incident of 1858 : South Carolina and the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade LD3950.T5 S738 2014 - Master's thesis about the capture of the slave ship Echo that was attempting to illegally smuggle enslaved people into the United States.
• Slavery in Louisiana : an examination of the legal and lived experiences of slavery LD3950.T5 D73 2005 - Master's thesis on the Louisiana society that enslaved people lived in from 1699 to the emancipation of enslaved people at the end of the Civil War.
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) of the WPA.  At the conclusion of the Slave Narrative project, a set of edited transcripts was assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.