African American Gateway
African-American Roots
Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy (includes searchable database)
Bitter Sweet | Linked through Slavery: a working group of bloggers who are members of the non-profit group Coming to the Table.
http://linkedthroughslavery.com
Book of Negroes
Digital Library on American Slavery (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
https://library.uncg.edu/slavery/
Documenting the Enslaved (an educational video from Ancestry.com)
An example of how I use those tips in my own family tree.
Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware
Georgetown Memory Project
Lost Friends Database advertisements of advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate placed by former slaves searching for loved ones after emancipation
http://www.hnoc.org/database/lost-friends/search.php
Low Country Africana, South Carolina Slaveholders and Genealogy, A-M
Low Country Africana, South Carolina Slaveholders and Genealogy, N-Z
National Archives of the Netherlands Index of Enslaved People
National Burial Database of Enslaved Americans
Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938
(contains 2,300 first-person accounts and photographs)
Slavery in East Tennessee -- a guide to records and transcriptions of records with named slaves
Slaves Owned by Descendants of George Washington
Texas Slave Narratives -- Genealogy Trails
Unknown No Longer -- Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Untold -- Finding aids for documents related to slaves maintained by the Library of Virginia
West Virginia Memories, A-M (articles about slavery and former slaves)
West Virginia Memories, N-Z
Slaves associated with members of the Yancey Family (mainly Southern US)
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http://yanceyfamilygenealogy.org/slaves.htm
Slaves owned by William Childress of Leon County, Texas
ReplyDeleteProbate E/382-83-84 (This is an old copy—The date was not clear, but since all the other paper work was filed in 1854 I have to assume this one was also.);
October term, (1854) .....
Inventory of the property of Wm. Childress (deceased)....
Negroes———To Wit———
Gabriel 45 years old $800
Sarah 40 700
Fanny 40 650
Isaac 23 1100
Edmond 23 1100
Adam 19 900
Phill 10 600
Cindy 10 500
Adaline 15 800
Joe 6 400
Andy 6 350
Allen 4 300
Daniel 4 300
Jef 2 175
** ( Next follows where his land was. It is unclear whether or which of any slaves lived on any of these properties, but they may be on different slave schedules in different counties,)
800 acres of land including home (in Leon County)
Land in Ellis County 426 acres
2 lots in Cairo on Trinity River
Enslaved: James. Estr, Nancy, Viney, Charles, Aubrae, Nelson, Luceay, Sam, Mavy, Moses, Deliah, Washington, Lucreatia
ReplyDeleteSlave owner: Isaiah Fuller
Source: estate inventory
Date % Place: 1827, Person County, North Carolina, USA
Link: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9061/images/005515407_01973?treeid=&personid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=cQu1490&_phstart=successSource&pId=361924
Kendell Lewis