Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775Michael Kay and Lorin Cary illuminate new aspects of slavery in colonial America by focusing on North Carolina, which has largely been ignored by scholars in favor of the more mature slave systems in the Chesapeake and South Carolina. Kay and Cary demonstrate that North Carolina's fast growing slave population, increasingly bound on large plantations, included many slaves born in Africa who continued to stress their African pasts to make sense of