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Negro (or Nigger) Head Road (or any other geographical place name: Corner, Slough, Point, Creek, etc.) - a place, traditionally outside a Southern town, until recently outside Wilmington, NC^[1]^[2] but other Southern towns,^[3] too, reputedly where body parts of slaves or blacks were displayed in consequence of a purported crime, ear for bad attitude, head for rebellion, fingers or hand for theft, toes or 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

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

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[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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 '''Negro (or Nigger) Head Road'''  (or any other geographical place name: Corner, Slough, Point, Creek, etc.) - a place, traditionally outside a Southern town, until recently outside [[Wilmington, NC]]<ref>Charles Edward Morris, "Panic and Reprisal: Reaction in North Carolina to the [[Nat Turner]] Insurrection, 1831," ''NCHR'' 62 (January 1985).</ref><ref>[https://www.nps.gov/mocr/learn/historyculture/upload/Negro-Head-Point-Road.pdf "Negro Head Point Road"], Moores Creek National Battlefield, [[National Park Service]], U.S. Department of the Interior.</ref> but other Southern towns,<ref>Max Brantley, "[http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2011/10/07/the-n-word-a-fact-of-geography-in-the-us The N-word: A fact of geography in the U.S.]", [[Arkansas Times]], Little Rock, AR, Oct 7, 2011.</ref> too, reputedly where body parts of slaves or blacks were displayed in consequence of a purported crime, ear for bad attitude, head for rebellion, fingers or hand for theft, toes or foot for escape, and genitals for sexual misconduct, etc.<ref>Theodore D. Weld, ''[http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/weld/weld.html American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses]'', [[American Anti-Slavery Society]], 143 Nassau St., NY, 1839.</ref>
+{{quote|''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...''<ref>Mariel Rose, "[http://www.jstor.org/stable/483323 Pocomoke: A study in remembering and forgetting]", ''[[Ethnohistory (journal)|Ethnohistory]]'', Vol. 45, No. 3 (Summer, 1998), pp. 543-573.</ref>}}
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