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• African-American Girl with Churn in Randolph County NC, July 1939. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Howard Odum Papers, #3167B-269]
  
• Manuscript runaway slave notice. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Manigault Family Papers, #484]
  
• September 3, 1839, letter from slave to master. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cameron Family Papers, #133]
  
• "Mary Dunc" and her granddaughter "Mary Catherine," 1939. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mary Susan Ker Papers, #P1467-51]
  
• Slave auction notice. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Manigault Family Papers, #484]
  
• African-American tenants resting on a Saturday Afternoon in Chatham County NC, July 1939. Photograph by Dorothea Lange. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Howard Odum Papers, #3167B-292]
  
• Eating "white dirt," a white clay found in several parts of the county (Greene County, Ga., June 1941). [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Raper Papers, #P3966-1320]
  
• African-American schoolhouse in rural Virginia. [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Southern Education Board Records, #P680-260]
  
• Definition of offenses involving slaves and slavery in Halifax County NC (ca. 1859). [From the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Cary Whitaker Papers, #767]