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Marvin Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary, Slavery in North Carolina 1748–1775

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Warren Milteer, North Carolina’s Free People of Color 1775-1885

Ira Berlin and Phillip D. Morgan, “Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in Americas” found in Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas

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