African-American Resources for Mississippi

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Online resources about slavery in Mississippi:

Contents 1 History and General Resources 2 Resources by Location 2.1 Adams County 2.2 Attala County 2.3 Bolivar County 2.4 Calhoun County 2.5 Holmes County 2.6 Jackson County 2.7 Lafayette County 2.8 Lee County 2.9 Lexington County 2.10 Noxubee County 2.11 Panola County 2.12 Pontotoc County 2.13 Tallahatchie County 2.14 Talbot County 2.15 Tate County 2.16 Tippah County 2.17 Warren County 2.18 Wilkinson County 2.19 Yalobusha County 2.20 Yazoo County 3 Slavery Resources

History and General Resources

• Mississippi Digital Archives
• Wikipedia's History of Mississippi
• Mississippi Probate Records
• AA Gateway, Mississippi
• Smithsonian Transcription of the Freedmen's Bureau Records Mississippi begins on p. 44
• Mississippi Death Certificate Index (explanation of codes used)
• Centennial Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
• The History of Negro Baptists in Mississippi
• The Leading Afro-Americans of Vicksburg, Miss. (published in 1909)

Resources by Location

Adams County

• Forks of the Road Slave Market, Natchez, Mississippi
• Adams County, Mississippi, U.S., Slave Certificates, 1858-1861
• Adams county, Mississippi Record Book 160 pages of records with Slave Owners, their slaves (some with last names), their ages, etc.

Attala County

• Attala County, Mississippi Genealogy
• Black Empowerment and the Fight for Liberation in Attala County 1865-1915
• 1880 Census Extract - AA Heads of Household

Bolivar County

An ongoing study of Mound Bayou, Bolivar County continues through 2023.

• Mound Bayou, Mississippi One Place Study
  
• Mound Bayou Cemeteries
  
• Settlers of Mound Bayou
• Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976-1981. Minnie Lucinda Fisher. OH-31. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Bolivar County Census'

• 1850 Bolivar County, Mississippi Slave Owners
• 1860 Bolivar County, Mississippi Slave Owners
• 1880 Census Extract - AA Heads of Household Directions for working on this project are included.

Calhoun County

• 1880 Census Extract - AA Heads of Household

Holmes County

• African-American Deaths in Lexington, Holmes County, MS and Surrounding Areas Transcribed From the Personal Notebook of the Late Mrs. Annie Z. Harrington Burch (12/11/1897 - 3/16/1984)

Jackson County

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Jackson County, Mississippi
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Jackson County, Mississippi

Lafayette County

Focus County between September - December 2023

• African-American Resources for Lafayette County, Mississippi
• 1880 Census Extract - AA Heads of Household in Lafayette County

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Lafayette County, Mississippi
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Lafayette County Mississippi

Lee County

• Camp Creek African American Cemetery

Lexington County

• African-American Deaths in Lexington, Holmes County, MS and Surrounding Areas Transcribed From the Personal Notebook of the Late Mrs. Annie Z. Harrington Burch (12/11/1897 - 3/16/1984)

Noxubee County

• 1860 Slave Census

Panola County

• Johnson Chapel AME Cemetery
• Hammond Hill M. B. Church Cemetery
• Concord Black Cemetery

Pontotoc County

• African-American Resources for Pontotoc County, Mississippi This page serves as the initial "work-in-progress" that began September 2023 and ended 30 November 2023 at which point a new county was chosen.
• 1850 Slave Schedule, Pontotoc County, Mississippi
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Pontotoc County, Mississippi

Tallahatchie County

• "Names of Free Negroes Apprenticed" - Jan 1866 to Jan 1867

Talbot County

• Talbot County Cemetery Publication

Tate County

• Tate county, Mississippi Black marriage records

Tippah County

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Tippah County, Mississippi
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Tippah County, Mississippi

Warren County

• Warren County Township-Range Map

Work was done between 2022 and 2023 on the following plantations in Warren County. Specifically, the Davis Bend area where the following plantations owned by Joseph Emory Davis and Jefferson Davis and Col James Gillam Wood.

1. Davis Bend Plantation
2. Hurricane Plantation
3. Brierfield Plantation
4. Ursino Plantation, Warren County, Mississippi, purchased by Wood from Joseph Davis

• 1850 Slave Schedule, Warren County, Mississippi
• 1860 Slave Schedule, Warren County, Mississippi

Wilkinson County

• Wilkinson County Newspaper Slave Ads 1823-1849

Yalobusha County

• 1880 Census Extract - AA Heads of Household
  • Note: This extraction includes 432 Heads of Household that are actually in Washington County MS. If you are researching in Washington County, please check here to see if the family you're looking for has been inadvertently included in the Yalobusha County extraction. In the future we can validate whether these same 432 families are included in the Washington County listing.

Yazoo County

• Register of Plantation Census 1865-1866 Freedmen's Bureau, Vol. 329

Slavery Resources

• USBH Index of Plantations by State
• WikiTree's Slavery Resources page
• History of Slavery in Mississippi at Wikipedia.
• Timeline of Slavery in Mississippi
• Report of Plantations in Natchez, Mississippi
• RootsWeb African American Slaves in Mississippi
• NPS African American Slaves in the Lower Mississippi Delta
• Mississippi African American Genealogy