County Specific Resources
- Beaufort County – Ethnic Genealogy
- Bertie County African-American Research
- Bladen County African-American Resources
- Caswell County – African American Members of Milton Presbyterian Church
- Catawba County Black Heritage
- Chatham County African-American Resources
- Chowan County Ethnic Research
- Dare County
- Edgecombe County African-American Research
- Franklin County African-American Genealogy
- Granville County African-American Records
- 1860 Slave Schedule – analysis of slaves owned in the county
- Guilford County African-American Ancestry
- Halifax County African-American Page
- Hyde County Ethnic Records
- Johnston County Slavery Resources
- Jones County African-American Resources
- Martin County African-American Articles
- Moore County
- Nash County African-American Page
- Northampton African-American Data
- Onslow County African-American Research
- Person County African-American Research
- Richmond County Slave Genealogies
- Warren County African-American Records
North Carolina African-American Resources
- Records Relating to African Americans in the NC State Archives
- US Colored Troops Formed in North Carolina
- NC Slave Narratives – from the Library of Congress Slave Narrative Project
- Documenting the American South: the North Carolina Experience – listing of online books about various black historical figures, including some of the Slave Narratives. The site offers a variety of experiences from the 1800s about African Americans, both Slave and Free.
- North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751-1840 – from UNC-Greensboro’s Digital Library of American Slavery
- Free African-Americans of Virginia, North Carolina & South Carolina – extensive information on freed families gathered from a variety of original court records.
- Freedmans Bank Records, 1865-1874 – free records from FamilySearch; includes images
- Free African-Americans in Antebellun NC – database of Pettiford, Chavis & Carter families of NC
- Heritage of Black Highlanders @ DigitalNC.org
- NC Rosenwald Schools (listed by county) – schools specifically for African Americans. You can also find out more information by searching the Fisk University Rosenwald Database.
- African-American Newspapers @ DigitalNC.org
- African-American Newspapers of NC – listing maintained by the UNC North Carolina Collection
- Images: African-American History – from the Greenville Daily Reflector Newspaper
- Perry-Weston Educational and Cultural Institute Inc
- Plantations of North Carolina – information on plantations around the state
General resources for researching African-Americans
- US African American Griots – resources from the USGenWeb Project
- African-American Gateway – from the Allen County Public Library
- Black Loyalists – a repository of info about African American loyalists who left New York between April and November 1783
- Digital Library of American Slavery – The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. The site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.
- Why Retracing our African Roots is so Difficult – article by noted genealogist Tony Burroughs
- African-American Family History Resources
- Cyndi’s List for African-American Resources
- Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
- Institute for African-American Research
- W.E.B. Dubois Institute for African-American Research