| The sources that undergird this account were written by African Americans. Beginning with Star of Zion microfilm, followed by census records, genealogies were built. Then scatterd sources, particularly school histories and church convention minutes, placed the women within their communities. North Carolina black women led cosmopolitan lives. Their papers and correspondence are scatter in archives in Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., Evanston, New Orleans, and Atlanta. - United States - North Carolina - |