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Surnames/tags: SlavePayrolls SlaveManifests
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African American Slave Resources
State Census Records
Some states have special state census collections which may capture your ancestor either as a Free Person of Color or as a newly emancipated person, before 1870. Some of the records are only viewable at a Family History Center or affiliate library.
"Alabama, U.S., State Census, 1820-1866": https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1576/
Georgia: "State census records, 1838-1879" : https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/195750?availability=Family%20History%20Library
"Mississippi, U.S., State and Territorial Census Collection, 1792-1866" : https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1125/
“Missouri State and Territorial Census Records, 1732-1933” https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2075262
“South Carolina, State and Territorial Censuses, 1829-1920 (includes the 1869 census)”: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2524910
Database of Enslaved community at Mount Vernon https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/slavery-database/?purpose=&person=&skill=Baker&time=&owner=&gender=&location=
National Archives pages:
- Slave Payrolls: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/719477
- Catalog of Ship Manifests: https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=Slave%20manifests
- Ship Orleans Oct 1840 (Roll 13 - #533): https://catalog.archives.gov/id/173898130
- Online Ship manifests: https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=*:*&f.ancestorNaIds=5573655&sort=naIdSort%20asc&tabType=online
Slave Manifests on Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Slave_Manifests_-_National_Archives_Catalog
Slave Schedules: Family Search https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1420440
Slave manifests on Ancestry: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1562&h=250533&tid=&pid=&queryId=75cf338ed9c0615c02c470181e36e4e4&usePUB=true&_phsrc=aBx7&_phstart=successSource
Slave Schedules: Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8055/
Confederate Slave Payrolls Completed
Space:Confederate_Slave_Payrolls,_Goochland_County,_Virginia,_to_Yorktown,_1862
Space:Confederate_Slave_Payrolls,_Madison_County,_Virginia,_to_Richmond_Defenses,_1862-1863
Free Space Pages for Transports created:
Space:Slaves_Transported_by_Franklin_&_Armfield_on_the_Ship_UNCAS
Space:Slaves_Transported_on_the_Ship_Creole_20_Nov_1840
Space:Slaves_Transported_by_B.M._Campbell
Free Space Pages for Slave Schedules created
Space:The_Slaves_of_Rice_Carter_Ballard
Space:The_Slaves_of_Bernard_M_Campbell
Space:The_Slaves_of_Hardy_Clements
Space:The_Slaves_of_Charles_Duvall
Space:The_Slaves_of_Isaac_Franklin,_West_Feliciana,_Louisiana
Space:The_Slaves_of_Peter_Guerrant,_Goochland,_VA
Space:The_Slaves_of_Peter_M_Guerrant
Space:The_Slaves_of_William_Giles_Harding
Space:The_Slaves_of_Robert_Love
Space:The_Slaves_of_Luther_Morgan_Clements
Space:The_Slaves_of_James_Marion_Morson_of_Goochland,_Virginia
Space:The_Slaves_of_Belt_Mulliken
Space:The_Slaves_of_Richard_Sampson
Space:The_Slaves_of_Dr._William_R._Trent,_Goochland,_Virginia
Space:The_Slaves_of_John_Thompson,_Goochland,_Virginia
TO DO List
List of slave owners
- Sixteen largest Slaveholders: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ajac/genealogy/biggest16.htm
- STEPHEN DUNCAN: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Duncan-6155 Slave schedules with about 800 listed
CREATE FSPs
- https://genealogycenter.info/africanamerican/results_afram.php?subject=LA
- Nathan Bedford Forrest article in SPLC: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/10/19/naming-enslaved-reconciling-past-memphis-0
- https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burneside-1
Create slave profiles" Virginia Boyd, was one of Judge Samuel Boyd's enslaved women with whom he fathered children. Her letter to Rice C. Ballard, pleading not to be sold with her children among strangers, has been preserved. "Ballard had undertaken to have her sold at the request of Judge Samuel Boyd, the children's father, to hide her existence from his family.
Create profiles for the following Slave Dealers: Orleans Parish 1850
- W.I. Martin b. 1825 KY
- Archibald Lily b. 1806 VA
- F. Jump b. 1815 MD
- G. Reid b. 1797 KY
- J.F. Goolsby b. 1826 GA
- Sarah Conner b. 1815 VA
Slave Traders on the UNCAS
- Robert W Simington
- Bogart and Hoops
Also listed on BM Campbell's transport are:
- Hugh N Wallis
- Thomas Carter
- Henry Sewell
Create FSP's for:
- Theophilus Freeman (Create an FSP for Theophilus Freeman's transports.)
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