North Carolina Slave Deed Index
A listing of Collections which have been compiled by North Carolina County Register of Deeds and other Resources
A number of NC Counties have created databases with the names of enslaved people as abstracted from various documents, mostly deeds and wills, and have made them available to the public. Some county lists include links to the actual documents, so be sure to look at those, too. Following are the links to the collections listed by County, some are to NCGenWeb and other websites, including People Not Property, others directly to PDFs created by County Register of Deeds offices. |
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Alexander County | |
Beaufort County | |
Bertie County | |
Brunswick County | |
Buncombe County ~ Register of Deeds page | Buncombe County |
Burke County | |
Caldwell County | |
Cherokee County | |
Craven County | |
Davidson County ~ Slavery overview | William Holt Slave Register (pdf) |
Duplin County | |
Granville County ~ Enslaved Ancestors Abstracted from Deed Books {Barnetta M. White |
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Granville County ~ NCGenWeb County Deeds; Slave Deeds marked | |
Guilford County (pdf) | Guilford County |
Halifax County | Halifax County ~ NCGenWeb County Deeds; Slave Deeds marked |
Halifax County ~ Free African Americans website | |
Iredell County (pdf) ~ provides link to search for specific document | |
Iredell County | |
Johnston County ~ also can search Cohabitation Marriages | |
Martin County | |
New Hanover County ~ names in multiple index volumes of deeds, as well as names in Wills | |
Onslow County | |
Orange County ~ on Register of Deeds blog page; it's ok to open! | Orange County |
Perquimans County | |
Person County (pdf) | |
Person County ~ NCGenWeb County Deeds; Slave Deeds marked | |
Pitt County ~ USGenWeb NC Archives | |
Rockingham County (pdf) | Rockingham County |
Stanly County ((pdf) | Stanly County |
Surry County~ Index of Slaves (pdf) *currently not working | Index of Slaveowners (pdf) *currently not working |
Surry County | |
Wake County ~ Register of Deeds Project; click "Start Your Search" | Wake County |
Warren County ~ NCGenWeb County Deeds; Slave Deeds marked | |
Wilkes County ~ NCGenWeb County Deeds; Slave Deeds marked | |
Yadkin County (pdf) | Yadkin County |
Contact: NCGenWeb African American Page