Slaves, Free Blacks and People of Color
Bits and Pieces of information about Slaves, Free Blacks and People of
Color
have been assembled here for those of searching for their ancestral
histories.
This stuff is hard to find, but we have put it closer to the top of
the list of things we want to do.
If anyone would like to share their info with us, we would be most happy
to post it, and give you a link to your page or e-mail.
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Plantations of North Carolina
AFRIGENEAS - SLAVE RECORDS
http://www.afrigeneas.com/
GEORGIA SLAVE CEMETERY. A FLORIDA TIMES-UNION article by Allison
Schaefers, begins: "KINGSLAND -- Deep in the woods off U.S. 17,
at the end of a winding dirt road where the vast Berne
Plantation once stood, passers-by will find a peaceful clearing
with more than 1,000 graves -- some marked with homemade mortar
headstones, others with simple white wooden crosses. Bright
green wisps of grass dot the landscape as if the graves were
recently dug, but the last burial in the Holzendorf cemetery was
in 1939. The grass was planted just weeks ago by the Camden
County Sheriff's Office as part of a huge cemetery cleanup
project." For the full story, see
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/042900/met_2942238.html
Typical slave cabin.
There has been a lot of discussion of “What makes a race” I copied the
following several years ago from an old issue of “The Protector” A newspaper
that was published in the late 1800’s in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
IT IS A FALSE CONNOTATION THAT CREOLES HAVE BLACK IN THEIR BLOOD
People with Black blood are called:
SACATRO - Negro & Griffe - 87.5 Black blood
GRIFFE - Negro & Mulatto - 75% Black blood
MARABON - Mulatto & Griffe - 62.5 Black blood
MULATTO - Negro & White - 50 % Black Blood
OS ROUGE - Negro & Indian - 50 % Black blood
TIERCERON - Mulatto & Quadroon - 37.5 Black blood
QUADROON - White & Mulatto - 25% Black blood
OCTAROON - White & Quadroon - 12.5% Black blood
Records of Births and Deaths Taken from
Family Bibles in Moore County
BIRTHS
Mariah March 2, 1851
Deley May, 22 1853
Jefferson (Son of Dicy Ann) May 22, 1857
Thomas Marshall (Son of Jane) January 17, 1859
Edmon (Son of Jane) July, 3 1864
Above from Bible of Matthew Carpenter and
Jane _________ ?. |
DEATHS
Charlotte Reives May 25, 1901
Charlotte Reives Williams September 2, 1980
From the Bible of William Harrison Foushee
and Margaret H. ______?. |
BIRTHS
Penny May, 21 1826
Tabitha Feb 20, 1828
Liddy (Twin) Apr 5, 1830
Jack (Twin) Apr 5, 1830
Lucy Jul 24, 1832
Jin Oct 26,1834
Mary Nov 22, 1836
David (Twin) January 7, 1836
Martha (Twin) Jan 7, 1836
Harrison Apr 9, 1841
Manuel Jan 30, 1843
Caroline Sep 22, 1844
Nelly Nov 28, 1845
Marten Jan 30,1846
Amanda Jun 15, 1848
Emaline Jan 20, 1850
Alvin Mar 2, 1850
Mahalia Apr 15, 1850
Henry Feb 5, 1853
Jery Feb 16, 1853
Eleck Dec 16, 1853
Peter Apr 19, 1855
Florah Nov 7, 1855
Bible of Malcolm Shaw and Barbara McLean |
BIRTHS
Mary 1773
Jenny 1773
Lucy 1785
Sam 1793
Mar 1790
Phill Dec 1799
David 1794
Betsy 1799
Sirara Dec 1802
Essie Feb 1805
Wiley Jan 1810
Basil Mar 1804
Nelson Dec 1808
Chloe 1809
Archey 1810
Sarah Nov 1811
Clara Jul 1812
Miralla Dec 1814
Greenock Feb 1818
Allen Aug 1819
Dave Mar 1821
Ann Jan 1818
Mary Apr 1820
Fredrick Mar 1821
Jim 1792
From unknown Bible |
About the Emancipation Proclamation
Everyone has heard about the Emancipation Proclamation. Most of us, however,
don't have a clear picture ofthe relationship between the Emancipation
Proclamation and the ending of slavery in the United States.
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on 1 January 1863
as part of an ultimatum to the Confederated states to rejoin the Union. The
Proclamation declared that slaves in any state in rebellion against the Union
(precisely those places where the Union could not then enforce its rule) would
be free.
The Proclamation did not apply to any of the states then in the Union, where
slavery
continued to exist. What the Emancipation Proclamation did, however, was to
signal
that the civil war would be more than a war to preserve the union, its outcome
would eventually
mean the ending of slavery, and this is the Proclamation's primary significance.
Because he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln is usually
associated with the ending of slavery. As President of the Union and Commander
in Chief of the Union forces, of course, Lincoln played an important role in
leading the nation toward the eradication of slavery, but this was a road that
Lincoln took reluctantly and out of necessity for preservation of the Union, not
because of inherent and deep-seated convictions about the immorality of slavery.
In August 1862, for example, President Lincoln wrote the following to Horace
Greeley (an anti-slavery journalist) "My paramount object in this struggle is to
save the Union and is not either to save or to destroy slavery." [Abraham
Lincoln to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862: in T. Harry Williams (editor)
Selected Writings and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln (1980), p. 174]. President
Lincoln was assassinated on 15 April 1865; The 13th Amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, which abolished slavery in the country, was
enacted on 18 December 1865, some eight months after Lincoln's death.
Colored Troops (The Sable Arm)
Black Soldiers in the Civil War, NARA
1st North Carolina Colored
Volunteer Infantry, (35th U.S. Colored Infantry)
U.S. Colored Troops Formed
in North Carolina
A History of the 35th U.S.
Colored Troops
35th Regiment, Lists of
Soldiers, U.S.Colored Troops
Regimental
Histories of U.S. Colored Troops
54th Massachusetts Infantry, U.S.A.
55th Infantry Regiment (1863-1865)
55th U.S. Colored
Troops, (1st Regiment Alabama Volunteers, a.d. [African Descent])
1st South Carolina Colored Volunteer Infantry, U.S.A.
| 30 Mar 1892 |
J H Harrington - Moore, 20 Colored, Parents: John &
Louise Harrington of Moore & Teal Goons - Moore, 21 White, Par: unk of Moore |
| 7 Aug 1892 |
Nelson Harrington - Moore, 21 Colored, Parents: Ben &
Rose Harrington of Moore & Martha Person - Moore, 17 Colored, Parents:
Brooks & Shallot Person of Moore |
| 11 Aug 1892
|
Jesse Manes - Moore, 24 Colored, Parents: Dumas & Element
Maness of Moore & Airtimes Shamberger - Moore, 17 Colored, Parents: James &
Adeline Shamberger of Moore |
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