The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries' Documenting the American South project (first discussed in the April 18, 1997 Scout Report--) brings us this collection of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century slave narratives. The collection, which was just completed last month, comprises 230 English-language narratives and many biographies of fugitive and former slaves....

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries digitizes historical documents for their Church in the Southern Black Community online collection, part of the ongoing digitization of materials in the Documenting the American South series (see the April 18, 1997 Scout Report). According to its creators, "'The Church in the Southern Black Community' traces how Southern African Americans...

During the Civil War, Roanoke Island, located between the coast of North Carolina and the Outer Banks, became a refuge for escaped slaves, called contrabands or freedmen. This site, created by University of Virginia professor Patricia C. Click presents an account of the history and selected documents and maps of the Roanoke Island Freedmens Colony, as the community was known. Documents include...