Negro Head Road

Negro (or Nigger) Head Road (or any other geographical place name: Corner, Slough, Point, Creek, etc.) is a place, traditionally outside a Southern town, until recently outside Wilmington, NC[1][2] but also other Southern towns,[3] where body parts of slaves or blacks were displayed in consequence of a purported crime. An ear was displayed for bad attitude, a head for rebellion, fingers or a hand for theft, toes or a foot for escape, and genitals for sexual misconduct, etc.[4]

...Negro Head Point, or Negro Head Point Road? (Many responded to this question with the vernacular: "It's Nigger Head Road.") "How did these places get their names?" The historical aspect of this study was addressed primarily by a title search conducted at the...[5]

References

  1. ↑ Charles Edward Morris, "Panic and Reprisal: Reaction in North Carolina to the Nat Turner Insurrection, 1831," NCHR 62 (January 1985).
  2. ↑ "Negro Head Point Road", Moores Creek National Battlefield, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
  3. ↑ Max Brantley, "The N-word: A fact of geography in the U.S.", Arkansas Times, Little Rock, AR, Oct 7, 2011.
  4. ↑ Theodore D. Weld, American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses, American Anti-Slavery Society, 143 Nassau St., NY, 1839.
  5. ↑ Mariel Rose, "Pocomoke: A study in remembering and forgetting", Ethnohistory, Vol. 45, No. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 543-573.
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