Slave Documents - Family, Legal & Historical

A Discussion Forum for all Genealogists to post Family, Legal and Historical related slave material.

This includes information to online and/or offline resources pertaining to period data - Wills, Estate Inventories, Journal and Bible Records, Deeds, Bills of Sale, Indentures, Records of Manumission, etc.

As descendants of emancipated African-Americans, these materials are the key to uncovering our family lineage.

Thank you for your support.

Luckie Daniels

Tags: african-american, data, research, slave, slavery

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 2:04pm

STATE: Georgia
COUNTY: Wilkes
DOCUMENT TYPE: Wilkes County, GA Estate Inventories Vol. I & II {1853-1869}

* 562 records
- http://picasaweb.google.com/mechie77/WilkesCountyInventoriesApprais...
- http://picasaweb.google.com/mechie77/WilkesCountyInventoriesApprais...

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 2:07pm

STATE: Georgia
COUNTY: Wilkes
DOCUMENT TYPE: Freedmen's Bureau Work Contract record of Freedmen working in 1866 Wilkes Co. for Clark Anderson & Co.

Freedmen’s Bureau Online – http://freedmensbureau.com/georgia/contracts/georgiacontract.htm

Source: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 – 1869
National Archives Publication M798 Roll 36
“Unbound Miscellaneous Papers”

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Permalink Reply by Toni Carrier on July 12, 2009 at 4:11pm

Abtracts/Research guides for Freedmen's Bureau Records: http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/freedmens-bureau/

Description: Introduction to Freedmen's Bureau records, with downloadable PDF guides to particular states and counties

--- toni :)

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 6:53pm

STATE: All - US
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital

Digital Library on American Slavery - http://library.uncg.edu/slavery/

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Permalink Reply by Davina Harrison on October 7, 2009 at 8:09am

Thanks, this seems to be a great website.

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 6:56pm

STATE: US
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital
Born In Slavery: Slave Narratives - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 7:02pm

STATE: Non-Applicable
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital Database

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 7:04pm

STATE: Delaware
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital

State of Delaware: Slavery Papers - http://archives.delaware.gov/exhibits/document/slavery/toc.shtml

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 7:07pm

STATE: Maryland
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital Database

Maryland Digital Culutral Heritage: Slave Documents Collection - http://www.mdch.org/collection.aspx?id=5110

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 7:10pm

STATE: US- Slaveholding
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital

1860 Large Slave Holders/1870 African-American Surname Matches - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/

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Permalink Reply by GeneJ on October 7, 2009 at 11:26am

Hi Luckie:
I looked this over; nice resource. Working on AprilDawn's Lewis Siler challenge (GW group, Most Wanted! Ancestors Lost and Found) we have been developing resources about a large slaveholder, Solomon Siler, and his relations of Pike Co., Ala; Solomon died prior to 1860; his estate perhaps divided among widow and children. The Siler slaveholders of Pike Co., Ala didn't seem listed --perhaps I missed it. --GJ
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Arvid O. Siler, The Siler family: a compilation of biographical and historical sketches ([?]: Tribune Printing Co., 1922); digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : ... ), for mention of Philip Siler, Jr. (#60, p. 47) , who had "seven sons...," at least some of whom are known to have removed from North Carolina to Alabama [likely the area of Pike County]; names of those sons given as, Allen Siler, Jackson Siler, Crabtree Siler, John R. Siler, Solomon Siler, Durham W. Siler, and Willis (Dock) Siler; also for mention of Solomon Siler (#68, p. 49), who was born at Chatham County, North Carolina and moved to Orion [Pike County], Alabama before the Civil War; prio to his death, had "emassed a great fortune ... and owned over 4 hundred slaves." Therein, sons of Solomon include Quintius Park Siler (no. 72), Octavious Siler and Crabtree Siler.

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Permalink Reply by Luckie Daniels on July 12, 2009 at 7:14pm

STATE: US - Various
DOCUMENT TYPE: Digital Photography

Duke University | Digital Collections {African-American History} - http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/