FRANKLIN COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY RESEARCH

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African American Records on this site:

Franklin County Freedmen's Marriages

Deed: Copeland to Hughes-1894

Louisburg City Cemetery

Franklin County Slavery Petitions

Runaway Slave Ad

Will of Joshua Perry-1807
(includes list of slaves)

Will of Elijah B. Perry-1843
(includes lists of slaves)

W. A. Eaton Letters to Freedmen's Bureau

 

 

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Visit Library of Congress, American Memory website for Slave Narratives:

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938

Franklin County Slaves included in Narratives:

Mary Anderson, daughter of Alfred & Bertha Brodie; Slaveowner- Sam Brodie Lily Perry, daughter of Reddick Perry; Slaveowner- Jerry Perry Celia Robinson, daughter of Henderson & Peggy Perry; Slaveowners-Wiley Perry, Alexander McKnight Melissa Williamson; Slaveowner - Billy Mitchell

 

 

AFRICAN AMERICAN RESOURCES

 

African American Projects on the NCGenWeb

African American Migration Experience

AfriGeneas ~ African Ancestored Genealogy

Black Firefighters of North Carolina

Black Loyalists in the American Revolution

Black Loyalists Digital Collection

Black Loyalists: Index to Black Pioneers History Includes history & info on African Americans who served with the British in the Revolutionary War

Christine's African American Genealogy

Colored Patriots of the American Revolution (online book published 1855)

Debunking the Myth of Black Confederates PDF book by Bennie J. McRae Jr. with documentation regarding the South's black enlistment policies

Digital Library on American Slavery

Free African Americans in Antebellum North Carolina Blog

Free African Americans in Antebellum North Carolina Database

Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, & Delaware

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina

Historically Black Colleges & Universities of North Carolina

Slavery & the North Carolina Experience

State Library: Finding Slave Records

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

Transatlantic Slave Trade Database