References
The primary sources came from citizens of North Carolina and newspapers from North Carolina at the time of Nat Turner’s rebellion. Secondary sources include two books and an article on the Nat Turner Rebellion, which include brief information on its effects in North Carolina, a section on slavery in a textbook on North Carolina, and book that is about antebellum slavery in the United States.
Primary Sources
Manuscripts
Moses Ashley Curtis, Personal Diary. M.A. Curtis Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in North Carolina. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/5295. (accessed April 5, 2012).
Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself (Boston, 1861), pp. 97–104. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/5250. (accessed April 5, 2012).
Letter from Rachel Lazarus to Eliza Morcedai, Oct. 9, 1831. Mordecai Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/5296. (accessed April 5, 2012).
Newspapers
“An Appeal to the Citizens of the United States, Proposing a plan for the Abolition of Slavery.” Raleigh Register. October, 6 1831. Wilson Library of North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.
“Another Insurrection.” Raleigh Register. September 15, 1831. Wilson Library of North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.
“Disturbances Among the Slaves.” Raleigh Register. September 22, 1831. Wilson Library of North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.
“From the Richmond Enquirer of August 26th.” North Carolina Star. September 1, 1831. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4543. (accessed April 5, 2012).
“Insurrection and Murder.” Raleigh Register. September 1, 1831. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4545. (accessed April 5, 2012).
“Negro Conspiracy.” North Carolina Star. September 22, 1831. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4573. (accessed April 5, 2012).
“The Edenton Gazette.” North Carolina Star. September 15, 1831. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4573. (accessed April 5, 2012).
“The Insurrection.” Carolina Observer. September 7, 1831. Wilson Library of North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.
“The Late Insurrection.” Raleigh Register. September 8, 1831. Wilson Library of North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.
“Post-Office, Jerusalem VA.” Raleigh Register. September 15, 1831. North Carolina Digital History. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-newnation/4544. (accessed April 5, 2012).
Secondary Sources
Books
Aptheker, Herbert. Nat Turner’s Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 “Confessions.” New York: Dover, 2006.
Link, William A. North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State. Wheeling: Harlan Davidson, 2009.
Plath, Lydia. “North Carolina and Nat Turner: Honor and Violence in a Slave Insurrection Scare.” In Black and White Masculinity in the American South, 1800-2000, edited by Lydia Plath and Sergio Lussana. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
Rothman, Adam. Slave Country: American Expansion and the Origins of the Deep South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.