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NC Freedmen
Transported to Other States, 13 Pages: start here |
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African Americans in the Revolutionary
War |
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African
American Histories & Articles on the US Colored Troops Pages |
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U.S. Colored
Troops of North Carolina-includes names,
regimental lists, histories, etc. |
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African American Schools
Founded in North Carolina |
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African American Medal of Honor
Recipients from NC:
Aaron
Anderson
William
McBryar
Eugene
Ashley Jr.
Lawrence
Joel
Henry Johnson |
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Image: The
Underground Railroad - painting by Charles
T. Webber |
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Plantations
of North Carolina -
by County, many linked to Slave Names |
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America's Youngest
Vietnam Casualty-Dan Bullock |
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Basic Guide to Start
Researching Enslaved People |
North Carolina Slave Deed Index
Compiled from Counties & other Resources |
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Records on Other Websites:
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NC Laws Concerning Slaves & Free People of Color -
compilation
starting 1715 |
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NC Slave Collections, 1748-1856
- NC Digital Collections finding aid with
brief list of what's included |
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NC Runaway Slaves Advertisements 1751-1865 -UNCG Digital
Collections |
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Freedom on
the Move - Search runaway slave ads nationwide |
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NC Slavery & Bondage Collection - FamilySearch |
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Southern States Slavery & Bondage Collection - FamilySearch |
Digital Library on
American Slavery
UNCG, numerous Slave Collections |
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Race and
Slavery Petitions -
searchable database |
Slave Deeds of NC Index
People Not
Property
abstracted by county, a growing list currently include
Beaufort, Brunswick, Buncombe,
Craven, Duplin, Guilford, Halifax, Iredell, Martin, Orange,
Perquimans, Stanly & Surry
Counties |
African
American Commemorative Landscapes
DocSouth listings |
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Born in
Slavery: Slave Narratives From Federal Writers Project 1936-1938 |
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Slave Narratives, Audio Collections |
Duke University: Behind the Veil
audio
collection of interviews about life in 1890-1950s |
American
Slavery Documents
Duke University Repository
Collections & Archives |
Slavery Era Insurance Registry, CA insurance Companies
nationwide
list |
Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry, IL insurance Companies
archived; select by Slave Name or Slave Holder |
First Person Narratives of
the American South
diaries, autobiographies, memoirs, travel
accounts, and ex-slave narratives written by Southerners |
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Free African
Americans -Paul Heinegg's groundbreaking research
of the origins of Free People of Color in the South |
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Contributions of Vance County People of Color -
description of pages |
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Downloadable book -free above book |
Manumission Society
Papers of North Carolina 1773-1845
Digital collection includes names of formerly enslaved |
Virginia
Manumissions-pre 1820
lists of freed slaves & Registers of Free
People of Color in VA, searchable |
Early NC & VA Census & Tax Lists: Free People of Color
- Paul Heinegg's website |
1860 Granville Co. Slave Schedule
Barnetta M. White's listing of
Slaveowners & numbers of Slaves including districts |
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1850
U.S. Census Slave Schedules - FamilySearch |
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1860
U.S. Census Slave Schedules - FamilySearch |
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1850 U.S.
Federal Census~Slave Schedules - free on Ancestry |
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1860 U.S.
Federal Census~Slave Schedules -free on Ancestry |
Christine's Genealogy
hundreds
of records for African American research |
| Last Seen -
searchable database of former slaves looking for family |
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Pictures of African Americans During WWII |
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How to Use Slave Schedules to Research Enslaved Ancestors |
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Instructions on How to Read a Slave Schedule |
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Pioneering Black Architects in North Carolina |
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The
Rice Crop and Slavery in North Carolina -the expansion of slavery |
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Large
Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870
Tom Blake's site features research from NC & other Southern States |
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Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony- former slave settlement in 1862 |
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Freedmen's
Convention Minutes Oct. 1866 |
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African American Politcal Pioneers |
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The Free Colored People of North Carolina,
an essay by Charles Chestnutt |
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Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through
the Civil War |
| Slavery in America
and the World - Collection of Slavery Era records |
Records of Enslaved People in Private Collections
The Records of Enslaved People in Private
Collections digital collection draws from various private collections,
offering glimpses into different points in the lives of enslaved
individuals such as purchases, sales, births, and deaths.
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Thomas Day biography
Thomas
Day Museum
on YouTube |
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Autobiography
of Omar ibn Said, Slave in NC 1831 |
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Grant Colored Asylum and the Colored Orphanage Asylum of North Carolina
Enrollment Ledger |
African American Records: Freedmen's Bureau
Explanations of
records from NARA |
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Links to Freedmen's Bureau Resources -
NARA's listing of
resources |
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Freedman's Bank Records 1865-1874
-searchable from FamilySearch |
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Freedmen's Bureau Records - FamilySearch |
NC Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records
links to many
collections on FamilySearch |
U.S. Freedmen's Bureau
Marriages, 1861-1872
12 States, not NC, where most
are included in the County marriages collections |
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U.S.
Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's Court Records, 1865-1872 |
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North Carolina's
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) |
Beyond the Kin Project
Research directory of Slaves &
Slaveowners |
Heritage of Black Highlanders - DigitalNC
history &
images of African Americans in Buncombe Co. |
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Free Negro Registers Fairfax Co, VA 1822 -1861 |
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North
Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Assistant Commissioner Records, 1862-1870 |
African Nova Scotians-Book of Negroes
History of African Americans who moved
to Canada after the Revolutionary War |
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Black Loyalists History Index
African Americans history
of those who fought on side of British in Revolutionary War |
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Inspection Roll of
Negroes - NARA's complete collection of images from
Book of Negroes |
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Slave Voyages
-explore the dispersal of enslaved Africans across the
Atlantic, and within the Americas |
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African American Digital Bookshelf
links to various resources listed by State |
