Acknowledgements

The Race and Slavery Petitions Project would not have been possible without the generous support of the history department at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission at the National Archives, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan.

A number of archivists and librarians have assisted in locating and photocopying relevant documents. They include Edwin Bridges and Norwood A. Kerr at the Alabama Department of Archives and History; Joanne Mattern and Randy Goss at the Delaware Public Archives; Kenneth H. Winn and Patsy Luebbert at the Missouri State Archives; Jeffrey Crow, Russell Koonts, Dennis Daniels, and William Brown at the North Carolina Division of Archives and History; Steven Tuttle, Robert MacIntosh, Caroline McDonnell, and Marion Chandler at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Ann Alley and Wayne Moore at the Tennessee State Library and Archives; Carol Kaplan of the Public Library of Nashville and Davidson County; Conley Edwards, Minor Weisiger, Chris Kolbe, Gwynne Tayloe, and John Hopewell at The Library of Virginia.

For an index to the Maryland records see the Schweninger Collection, MSA SC 4239

Graduate and undergraduate research assistants who have worked on Series 1 Legislative Petitions include Duane Galloway, Doug Bristol, Katie Knight, David Herr, Michael Huber, Denise Ettenger, Jim Giesen, Jeff Winstead, Jeanette Jennings, and Tania Taylor. Staff assistant Adrienne Middlebrooks, and assistant editors Robert Shelton, Chad Bowser, and Lisa Maxwell helped in various ways as did Marguerite Ross Howell and Sallie Clotfelter. Technical assistance was provided by Vice Chancellor James Clotfelter, Associate Vice Chancellor Gary Grandon, Director of Client Services Walter Anthony, and John Major, Leroy Bell, Soraya Trolinger, Heidi Schachtschneider, Judy Guard, Denise Cowardin, Andrew Marker, Vivek Narayan, and Debarati Majumdar of UNCG's Department of Instructional and Research Computing.

The Project director is very grateful for the generous assistance of these archivists, research assistants, and technical experts.