US Black Heritage Project Florida Team

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Surnames/tags: black_heritage Florida Slavery

The Florida Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Florida.

Team Leader: Notify Emma McBeath if interested in this position

Team Members:

• Nancy (Peterson) Morrissey
• Betsy Simpson
• Dot Tribble
• Carolyn Martin

Contents 1 Goals 2 Projects 2.1 October Through December 2023 Project 3 Projects Pending for Florida 4 Other Resources for Florida 5 Stickers 6 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project 7 Sources

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on Florida:

• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
• To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
• To process all types of documents from Florida regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
• To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in Florida, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Projects

• Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Florida, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries.
• Locating and documenting all plantations in Florida that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for enslavers and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
• Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Florida.
• Make profiles for the Tuskegee Airman who don't yet have profiles on WikiTree
• Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Florida.

October Through December 2023 Project

As always, previous counties will still be available to work on. You can see what has already been done, and some suggestions for work still in process, on the specific county pages. See African-American Resources for Florida.

Our team focus for October Through December will be announced when a new Team Leader is determined.

Beginning stats as of October 1st: 0 plantations, 0slave owners (0 "slaves of" pages), 0 slaves, 0 cemeteries,

Specific areas of focus:

• Make profiles for all slave owners
• Identify the enslaved and make profiles for them
• Make free space pages for all plantations in County
• Document all African-American cemeteries in County

Resources available:

Pending:

Completed:

Cemeteries:

Slave Owners:

"Slaves of " Pages:

Slaves:

Plantations:

One Place Studies:

Projects Pending for Florida

• African-American Cemeteries in Florida
• Florida African-American Notables
• Florida Plantations
• Military and War, African-Americans from Florida
• African-American Resources for Florida - Wikitree's US Black Heritage Project breakdown of resources by counties
• US Black Heritage: Connectors Page (See Florida section for the 10 largest unconnected branches by birth location)

Other Resources for Florida

• African-American Resources for Florida for a list of history, photographic, map, and genealogical resources.
• Freedmen Narratives
• Florida Department of State website, "Emancipation and Reconstruction" Has a huge list of resources - books, digital resources, federal documents, and articles.
• Search Wikitree for Slave Profiles in Florida
• "The Red Hills of Florida, 1528-1865" by Clifton Paisley, The University of Alabama Press, Copyright 1889
• Florida Governors
• Researcher: Darrel G. Riley. News Article: Early Statehood: The Land Rush (1845-1860). Updated 22 Sep 2003. Ocala Star Banner website at https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2003/01/01/early-statehood-the-land-rush/31271295007. Mainly Marion and Levy County, Florida. Lists plantations.

Stickers

Along with the {{African-American Sticker}} you may also wish to add a Florida sticker to profiles.

Place {{Florida Sticker|born in Florida}} below the African American sticker if they were born in Florida. Place {{Florida Sticker}} below the African American sticker if they lived in Florida for a large part of their life, but were not born there.

WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

• US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal
• US Black Heritage Index of Plantations

Sources