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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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Constitutional Convention 1868: Black Caucus |
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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 |
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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 |
Black Loyalists: Our History, Our People
Canada's
Digital Collection |
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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Black Loyalists: Book of Negroes - List of names
transported to Canada |
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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 |
