Were your ancestors slaves in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina?
You can find helpful resources including slave registers and information on plantations and slaveholders here: https://lowcountryafricana.com/
African Americans in the 1867 Voter Registration Lists. FamilySearch.org.
African Americans and the Federal Census, 1790–1930. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/census/african-american/census-1790-1930.pdf
About Census Records. National Archives. https://www.archives.gov/research/census/about
1850. United States Census Bureau. https://www.census.gov/history/www/through_the_decades/index_of_questions/1850_1.html
Dunn, Marvin. Dunn History: A History of Florida Through Black Eyes https://dunnhistory.com/ Includes many resources and helpful articles as well as Slave Narratives organized by state.
First-Person Narratives of the American South. DocSouth . https://docsouth.unc.edu/
“United States, Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939”, Database. FamilySearch. https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3460246: 2 April 2023.
Soldiers and Sailors Database. The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) is a database containing information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/soldiers-and-sailors-database.htm
Myths & Misunderstandings: Black Confederates, (2017). The American Civil War Museum. https://acwm.org/blog/myths-misunderstandings-black-confederates/
Leland Hawes, “New Book Spotlights Hillsborough’s Black Pioneers,” The Tampa (Florida) Tribune, 16 February 2003, 105.
Mormino, G. R., “Florida Slave Narratives,” The Florida Historical Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 4, 1988, 399–419; https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1270&context=fhq
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