African-American Resources for Georgia

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Links to online resources about African American Heritage in Georgia:

Contents 1 History and General Resources 2 African-American Historical and Genealogical Societies in Georgia 3 Historical Black Colleges and Universities in Georgia 4 Resources by Location 4.1 Appling County 4.2 Baker County 4.3 Baldwin County 4.4 Bibb County 4.5 Brooks County 4.6 Bryan County 4.7 Bulloch County 4.8 Burke County 4.9 Calhoun County 4.10 Camden County 4.11 Charlton County 4.12 Chatham County 4.13 Colquitt County 4.14 Columbia County 4.15 Coweta County 4.16 Elbert County 4.17 Evans County 4.18 Fayette County 4.19 Fulton County 4.20 Glynn County 4.21 Greene County 4.22 Hancock County 4.23 Harris County 4.24 Jackson County 4.25 Laurens County 4.26 Liberty County 4.27 Lincoln County 4.28 Lumpkin County 4.29 Madison County 4.30 McIntosh County 4.31 Miller County 4.32 Meriwether County 4.33 Montgomery County 4.34 Newton County 4.35 Oglethorpe County 4.36 Putnam County 4.37 Rabun County 4.38 Richmond County 4.39 Sumter County 4.40 Taliaferro County 4.41 Thomas County 4.42 Troup County 4.43 Warren County 4.44 Wilkes County 5 Slavery Resources

History and General Resources

• Lowcountry Africana, African American Genealogy in SC, GA and FL
• Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
• Freedmen’s Labor Contract, William Patterson With 108 Freedmen, Strathy Hall Plantation, Savannah, GA, 1867
• History of slavery in Georgia at Wikipedia
• Families Discover Roots (Augusta, GA)
• Slave Burial Ground at Calhoun Square Savannah, Ga
• Georgia African American Genealogy
• "History of Georgia (U.S. state)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
• Georgia History, New Georgia Encyclopedia
• "History of slavery in Georgia (U.S. state)," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
• "Slavery in Colonial Georgia", Wood, B. (2002), In New Georgia Encyclopedia
• "Why Georgia Became a Slave State in 1751"
• "Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction"
• "Slavery in Antebellum Georgia." New Georgia Encyclopedia, Young, Jeffrey
• Georgia Maps Index, US GenWeb Archives Digital Map Library
• Georgia Archives Virtual Vault, University of Georgia Contains wide variety of documents and photos for research
• African-American Historic Places and Culture: A Preservation Guide for Georgia
• 1850 Mortality Schedules on Family Search - Georgia
• Search Wikitree for Slaves in Georgia
• List of plantations in Georgia (U.S. state)
• The Digital Library of Georgia
• Governors of Georgia
• African-American Settlements

African-American Historical and Genealogical Societies in Georgia

• Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc - Metro Atlanta Chapter, President - Tammy Ozier

Historical Black Colleges and Universities in Georgia

See: Official List Of HBCUs In Georgia!!!

• Albany State University, located in Albany, Georgia
• Clark Atlanta University - located in Atlanta, Georgia
• Fort Valley State University - located in Fort Valley, Georgia (needs category)
• Interdenominational Theological Center - located in Atlanta, Georgia (needs category)
• Morehouse College - located in Atlanta, Georgia
• Morehouse School of Medicine - located in Atlanta, Georgia (needs category)
• Morris Brown College - located In Atlanta, Georgia
• Paine College - located in Augusta, Georgia
• Savannah State University - located in Savannah, Georgia (needs category)
• Spelman College - located in Atlanta, Georgia

Resources by Location

• Georgia Slavery Project, Slave Records by County

Appling County

• USBH 1880 Census Georgia, 1209 people need profiles

Baker County

• Green Grove C.M.E. Church Cemetery, Newton, Georgia, 36 memorials, all profiles created.

Baldwin County

• John Neves (abt.1762-abt.1828) - needs 40 or so slave profiles done from will and plantation page

Bibb County

• Collaborative project identifies nearly 1,000 slave transactions in Macon from 1823-65 (Article about digitized Bibb County deed books from the 1800s.)
  • Create free account and search here: https://bibbclerkindexsearch.com/External/User/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fexternal
• Article about digitized Bibb County deed books from the 1800s

Brooks County

• Freedman's Bureau Labor Contracts in Brooks County, Georgia

Bryan County

• Freedmen’s Labor Contract, William Patterson With 107 Freedmen, Strathy Hall Plantation, Savannah, GA, 1867 (Contract done at the Savannah office, but Strathy Hall is in Bryan County)
• Inventory of Slaves from Mulberry Hill and White Hall Plantations, Bryan County, Georgia, December 1823
• Mullberry Hill Plantation Bryan county, GA Owner: Richard James Arnold, Sr. needs handwritten slave list transcribed
• White Hall Plantation, Bryan County, Georgia Owner: Richard James Arnold Sr Needs slave list transcribed
• Silk Hope Plantation, in Bryan County, Georgia, owned by Thomas Savage III then wife Mary Elliott (Butler) Savage
• Echoes of the River Bend By Jerry Rutland

Bulloch County

• Colored People Cemetery

Burke County

• Ellison Plantation in Burke County owned by Robert Franklin Ellison
• John Whitehead (1783-1857)- already on Wikitree, slave owner

Calhoun County

• Saint Paul AME Church Cemetery Calhoun County, Georgia, 222 memorials, 2 don't have enough info, 220 profiles completed.

Camden County

• African-American Resources for Camden County, Georgia

Charlton County

• USBH 1880 Census Georgia #1: Charlton & Colquitt County All 362 profiles completed for Charlton County.
• Hannans Cemetery, Charlton County, Georgia AKA Bethel Church Black Cemetery. Created 43 memorials. Five graves did not have enough into.

Chatham County

The focus for the Georgia State Team for July-September 2023 will be the Troup family who were spread across multiple counties in Georgia, including Laurens, McIntosh, Montgomery, Glynn, and Chatham.

• African-American Resources for the Troup Family, Georgia

• African-American Resources for Chatham County, Georgia

Colquitt County

• USBH 1880 Census Georgia #1: Charlton & Colquitt County

Columbia County

Coweta County

• African-American Resources for Coweta County, Georgia

Elbert County

• Coldwater Plantation, Elbert County, Georgia owned by Ralph Banks (1757-1823)

• Ralph Banks (1757-1823)
• Slaves of Ralph Banks, Georgia
• Rachel Alston (Jones) Banks (1769-1851)
• Slaves of Rachel Alston (Jones) Banks, Georgia
• James Jones Banks (1792-abt.1867) slaves initially held in Elbert County
• Slaves of James Jones Banks, Alabama
• Marion Banks (1813-1886) slaves initially held in Elbert County
• Slaves of Marion Banks, Alabama
• Ralph Banks Jr. (1796-1871)
• Slaves of Ralph Banks Jr, Georgia

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Elbert County, Georgia
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Elbert County, Georgia

Evans County

• African American Funeral Programs, 1960-2022 "African American funeral programs dating from 1886-2019 held by the Evans County Community Center in Claxton, Georgia."

Fayette County

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Fayette County, Georgia
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Fayette County, Georgia

Fulton County

• Metro Atlanta Chapter Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Atlanta Chapter
• Atlanta Funeral Programs Collection
• Atlanta Archive Records available in Atlanta at the archives.
• Joseph Emerson Brown (1821-1894), slave owner
• William Ward (abt.1832-aft.1937), slave

Glynn County

The focus for the Georgia State Team for July-September 2023 will be the Troup family who were spread across multiple counties in Georgia, including Laurens, McIntosh, Montgomery, Glynn, and Chatham.

• African-American Resources for the Troup Family, Georgia

• Glynn County Slave Records Sea Island
• The Village Plantation, Glynn County, Georgia
• Alexander Campbell Wylly (abt.1760-abt.1833)
• Margaret (Armstrong) Wylly (abt.1769-1850)
• Elizafield Plantation in Glynn Co, GA owned by Hugh Fraser Grant (+/- 435 profiles need to be created)
• The Village Plantation, Glynn County, Georgia owned by Alexander Campbell Wylly and Margaret (Armstrong) Wylly (44 profiles need to be created)

Greene County

• McWhorter Plantation, Greene in Greene County owned by Robert McWhorter

Hancock County

• Rock Mill Plantation in Warren, Georgia, owned by Jonas Shivers, then son William Shivers
• Granite Hill Plantation in Hancock County owned by Andrew Jackson Lane (27 profiles need creation)

Harris County

• Pierce Chapel Cemetery, Harris County, Georgia (Also known as Pierce Chapel African American Cemetery)
• Trammell Families Circa 1870, Harris County, Georgia

Jackson County

• African-American Resources for Jackson County, Georgia

Laurens County

The focus for the Georgia State Team for July-September 2023 will be the Troup family who were spread across multiple counties in Georgia, including Laurens, McIntosh, Montgomery, Glynn, and Chatham.

• African-American Resources for the Troup Family, Georgia

Liberty County

• Liberty County Vital Records
• They Had Names - Resource for Liberty County, Georgia, more than 33,000 references to named African Americans - enslaved and free.
• Slaves of Francis John Chapman
• Francis John Chapman (1779-1852) (already on Wikitree)
• Francis John Chapman Plantation, Liberty, Georgia - under construction

Lincoln County

Slave Owners:

• Thomas Dallis (-bef.1840)

Lumpkin County

• Singleton Plantation and Mines in Lumpkin County owned by Joseph J Singleton

Madison County

• Slaves of John G. Wilhite, in Madison County, Georgia, owned by John G Wilhite

McIntosh County

The focus for the Georgia State Team for July-September 2023 will be the Troup family who were spread across multiple counties in Georgia, including Laurens, McIntosh, Montgomery, Glynn, and Chatham.

• African-American Resources for the Troup Family, Georgia

Other sources:

• Reminiscences of a Southern woman by Conrad, Georgia Bryan, a cousin of Robert Troup

Miller County

• Oak Long Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery, Colquitt, Miller County, Georgia, 532 memorials, 531 profiles needed.

Meriwether County

• African-American Resources for Meriwether County, Georgia

Montgomery County

The focus for the Georgia State Team for July-September 2023 will be the Troup family who were spread across multiple counties in Georgia, including Laurens, McIntosh, Montgomery, Glynn, and Chatham.

• African-American Resources for the Troup Family, Georgia

Newton County

• Newton County Cemeteries with current profiles on WikiTree

Oglethorpe County

• Edwards Plantation in Oglethorpe County owned by Mordecai Edwards
• McWhorter Plantation, Oglethorpe in Oglethorpe owned by James Hamilton McWhorter
• John Wynne (abt.1787-1856), slave owner
• Littleberry Kinnebrew (1787-abt.1854), slave owner
• Slaves of Littleberry Kinnebrew, Oglethorpe County, Georgia

Putnam County

• Allen Lawrence Plantation Putnam County

Rabun County

• USBH 1880 Census Georgia (see Rabun tab at bottom of page), 197 profiles need creation

Richmond County

• Rollersville Cemetery, Augusta (aka Harrisburg Cemetery)
• John Whitehead (1783-1857)- already on Wikitree, slave owner
• Cedar Grove Cemetery, Richmond County, Georgia Dee is working on this using Augusta Parks & Recreation Graveside Search Results for Cedar Grove
• Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, 606 memorials, need 606 profiles created

Sumter County

• Sumter County Cemeteries - listed by Black and White
• Hill Cemetery, Americus, Sumpter County, Georgia

Taliaferro County

• Slaves of Nathaniel Francis Chapman, Georgia
• Nathaniel Francis Chapman (1820-aft.1885) (already on Wikitree)

Thomas County

• History of Slaves in Thomasville, Georgia
• Old Cemetery, Thomasville, GA slaves buried alongside owners

Troup County

African-American Resources for Troup County, Georgia

Warren County

• Rock Mill Plantation in Warren, Georgia, owned by Jonas Shivers, then son William Shivers

Wilkes County

• Heardmont Farm in Wilkes; owner: Stephen Heard (23 profiles needed) includes Slaves of Elizabeth Darden Heard
• Joshua Lewis Render Jr (abt.1750-1818)
• Christopher Columbus Render (1774-1826)
• John Waddey Burnes (1749-1802)
• Slaves of John W Burnes, Georgia

Slavery Resources

• Georgia Slave laws
• Georgia Encyclopedia, Slave Women
• USBH Index of Plantations in Georgia
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 for Georgia
• Slave Narratives: Federal Writers' Project - Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 4, Georgia, Part 2
• American Slave Civil Records, National Arvhives (GA page 665)
• Midway Museum has some slave records, not digitized.
• Low Country Africana - slaves in SC, GA, and FL
• Georgia Encyclopedia Slavery in Antebellum Georgia- Randall M. Miller, John David Smith (1988). Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery, Greenwood Press. Frederic Bancroft (1931)
• Sec of the Interior - Suppression of Slave Trade and Colonization
• History of Slaves in Thomasville, Georgia
• Wikipedia: Sea Islands Georgia
• Ebos (Ibos) Landing Slave Rebellion