| Selectd Bibliography |
| Blethen, H. Tyler. Lectures in Southern Appalachia History. August-December, 2003. |
| Blethen, H. Tyler and Curtis Wood. From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998. |
| Blethen, H. Tyler and Richard A. Straw. High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2004. |
| Carter, Mary Nelson. North Carolina Sketches: Phases of Life Where the Galax Grows. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Company, 1900. |
| Crow, Jeffrey J. and Robert E. Winters, Jr. Co-editors. The Black Presence in North Carolina. Raleigh, NC: The North Carolina Museum of History, 1978. |
| Crow, Jeffrey J. et al. A History of African-Americans in North Carolina. Raleigh: The North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1992. |
| Fitzpatrick, Pat. 2001. “Growing Up In Stumptown,” In May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History & Cultures of Western North Carolina, Vol. 2, ed. R. S. Brunk, 141-153. Asheville, N.C.: Robert S. Brunk Auction Services, Inc. |
| Culpepper, Linda Parramore. "Black Charlestonians in the Mountains: African-American Community Building in Post-Civil-War Flat Rock, North Carolina," Journal of Appalachian Studies, 2002, Volume 8 Number 2. |
| Inscoe, John C. Appalachians and Race: The Mountain Song from Slavery to Segregation. Lexington, Ky.: The University of Kentucky Press, 2001. |
| Inscoe, John C. Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina. Knoxville, Tn.: The University of Tennessee Press, 1989. |
| Jones, Alice Eley. "Historically Speaking." Durham, NC., 2000. |
| Mosley-Edington, Helen. Angels Unaware: Asheville Women of Color. Asheville, NC: Home Press, 1996. |
| Mosley-Edington, Helen. Visionaries: Asheville Men of Color. Asheville, NC: Home Press, 2000. |
| Turner, William H. and Edward J. Cabell. Blacks in Appalachia. Lexington, Ky.: The University of Kentucky Press, 1985. |
| Additional Web Resources: |
| African American history Subject Guide |
| Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938. |
| African-American History Web Resources. |
| Appalachian Studies Bibliography: Ethnicity and Race, African Americans, Immigrants and Native Americans. West Virginia University. |