Negro Head Road

Negro (or Nigger) Head Road is a place outside Wilmington, North Carolina[1][2] with similar displays in other Southern towns,[3] where body parts of slaves or blacks were displayed in consequence of a purported crime. It is modeled after displays like Blackhead Signpost Road in Southampton County, Virginia. It was here, in 1831, where the head of a slave, Alfred, was displayed on a stake for being part of Nat Turner's Rebellion, as a warning for any future rebels.[4]

  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, Arkansas, October 7, 2011.
  4. ^ Brophy, Alfred (August 15, 2015). "Blackhead Signpost Road needs another sign".