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AFRICAN AMERICAN PAGE
If anyone has records for Halifax County African Americans, please consider contributing them by contacting me so that we may add them to this page.
African American Records on this Site:
Cato Copeland Revolutionary War Pension File
Benjamin Richardson Revolutionary War Pension File
Elijah Bass Revolutionary War Pension File
Biography of James Edward O'Hara, 1844-1905
John Toney Revolutionary War Pension File
Isham Scott Revolutionary War Pension File
Will of Benjamin Richardson, 1809
Will of William Richardson, 1798
Will of Alfred Richardson, 1874
Will of Lucy (Williams) Manley, 1930
Sale of Slaves of Cary Whitaker, 1851
Burton Richardson Family Cemetery
Will of Julius Zollicoffer, 1853 (lists freed slaves)
Will of Sallie (Holly) Richardson, 1928
Will of Gideon Richardson, 1880
Will of Eliza Louisa Richardson, 1908
Halifax County Slavery Petitions
Will of Hardy Minga Jones, 1873
Will of Hilliard Hawkins, 1916
Will of Hardy Richardson, 1854
Halifax County U. S. Colored Troops
Children of William Mills, 1860
Will of Frank Richardson, 1921
Halifax County Emancipation Records
Records in USGenWeb Archives:
Halifax County Free Persons of Color Register, 1847-1865
Halifax County Apprenticeships Records, 1847-1865
Many of these are entries for free African Americans
Emancipation of Children of Miles Howard, 1836
Jacob-Property of Henry Mitchell, 1856
William, Runaway-$50 Reward-1856
Albert Hockody - Act to Emancipate, 1855
Links to Records on other websites:
Halifax County 1860 Largest Slaveholders & 1870 Surnames Match
Slaves Named in Wills, Halifax Co.,NC 1758-1854
From Paul Heinegg's groundbreaking work on Free African Americans of North Carolina, this entire website is a must for
those researching their free ancestors in the South
Free African Americans of VA, NC, SC, MD, DE
Paul Heinegg's landmark website
John Baysmore, A Historical Sketch of 1st Colored Baptist Church
Audrey's NC, SC, and VA Archives: African American
Genealogy
Contains names of many NC families from Halifax & surrounding counties
Free African Americans in Antebellum North Carolina Blog
Free African Americans in Antebellum North Carolina Database
Black Firefighters of North Carolina
The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
Online book published in 1855
An Introduction to North Carolina Loyalist Units
A site devoted to the study of Loyalists during the Revolutionary War
Black Loyalists: Index to Black Pioneers History
Includes history & info on African Americans who served with the British in
the Revolutionary War
The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Slavery & the North Carolina African American Experience
A History of the Negro Baptists of North Carolina
Into the Light
Research blog of the Yarborough, Green, Hawkins, Dunstan, Brown, Davis & Ross Families
African Origins
Information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic in a searchable
database
Slave Trade: Clash of the People
A timeline on slavery from it's very beginnings in an African village in 1444, very informative & eye opening
Digital History
A website of many resources for researching all aspects of American History including the Civil War & The Reconstruction Period
Arrival of First Africans in theVirginia Colony
Histories & descriptions of some of the first Africans & their descendants from 1619
Slave Narratives: Tempe Pitts
Daughter of Isaac Williams & Phillis Pitts, former slave of Hardy Pitts
The
Gospel Train
African American song from antebellum period, includes audio & song
African Nova Scotian Diaspora
Selected Government Records of Black Settlement 1791-1839
Report on Alleged Outrages in the South (1871)
Investigation & hearings held in 1871 about early days of the KKK, with descriptions & first hand testimonies from both victims
& perpetrators of crimes against African Americans
Report of Services by Freed People of NC to the US
Army(1864)
A fascinating read of activities of African Americans in NC in their efforts to
help the North during the Civil War, as well as details of their escapes from slavery
African American Research Help:
Afrigeneas.com
The premier African American resource site; get help from others researching their AA roots in a number of different Forums
Digital Library on American Slavery
Search online petitions for clues to enslaved ancestors
BlackPast.org
An Online Reference Guide to African American History
Black Loyalists Digital Collection
Search through records for ancestors who fought on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War, and who later settled in Canada
NC State Library:
Finding Slave Records
Detailed instructions on how to research your slave ancestors
New to Research and no idea of how to start researching your African American Roots?
A Beginners Guide to African American Research
This is a must see interactive guide from the folks at Afrigeneas.com
Also, see a list of additional guidance for researching on our Research Help & Lookup Page
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