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==Introduction==
A list of resources to research African American ancestors who lived in Oklahoma. <br>  
A list of resources to research African American ancestors who lived in Oklahoma. <br>  


==Online Resources==
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<li>[http://african-nativeamerican.blogspot.com/2010/11/old-choctaw-plantation-part-of-oklahoma.html The African-Native American Genealogy Blog]</li>
 
<li>[[African American Digital Bookshelf]] - a growing list of digital books on FamilySearch and other websites</li>
=== Archives and Libraries  ===
<li>[http://www.blackarchives.org/ Black Archives of Mid-America]</li>
 
<li>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v011/v011p1056.html Chronicles of Oklahoma] </li>
[http://www.blackarchives.org/ The Black Archives of Mid-Americ[[Category:African American Records]], located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.<br>  
<li>[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AF003 Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History] </li>
<li>[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entryname=african%20americans Oklahoma Historical Society: African Americans]</li>


==Research Strategy==
=== City Directories  ===
==History==
'''Slavery'''


A few hundred enslaved African Americans had run away from their white slaveholders and sought refuge in Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee settlements, where they were received as free people. While some Indian communities incorporated Blacks as free people, American Indians in each of the nations, except the Seminole, began to enslave African Americans.  
Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory&nbsp;: includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:[http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C180%2C0&titleno=746676&disp= 1994331 Item 6])


A number of Indian farmers had large tracts of land under cultivation and used enslaved laborers to produce cotton and surplus crops for sale and profit. Most Indian slaveholders, however, practiced subsistence agriculture, and both enslaved persons and slaveholders labored side by side in the fields. By the 1830s, well over three thousand African Americans, mostly enslaved, lived among the tribes.
=== Freedmen  ===


American Indians brought enslaved persons to the west in the 1830s and 1840s when the federal government removed the nations from the southern states. The Cherokee, with more than fifteen hundred, had the largest number. Enslaved populations removed with the other nations ranged from approximately three hundred in the Creek Nation to more than twelve hundred in the Chickasaw Nation. By the time the Civil War broke out, more than eight thousand African Americans were enslaved in Indian Territory where they comprised 14 percent of the population. Slavery continued in the territory through the Civil War. <ref>http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/SL003.html</ref>
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR016.html Freedme[[Category:African American Records]]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html Freedmen Town[[Category:African American Records]]


'''All-Black Towns of Oklahoma'''<br>
History of African American Oklahomans<br>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF003.html]
More than 50 African American towns were established between the 1865 and 1920. Many of the towns were formerly held by one of the [[Five Civilized Tribes|Five Civilized Tribes]].  
*Towns: Boley, Clearview, Grayson, Langston, Lincoln, Redbird, Rentiesville, Taft, Tatums, Tullahassee, Vernon and Wewoka.  
*Extinct Towns: Bailey, Bookertee, Canadian Colored, Chase, Ferguson, Gibson Station, Liberty, Marshall Town, North Fork, Wellston Colony and Wybark.  


'''Online Resources'''
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF003.html African American[[Category:African American Records]]  
*[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entryname=african%20americans Oklahoma Historical Society: African Americans]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR016.html Freedmen]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AL009.html Freedmen Towns]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140701110414/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF003.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture: African Americans]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE009.html Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture: Tenant Farming and Sharecropping]
*[http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.htm The Homestead Act]
**[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~swokla/custer/homested.html Oklahoma Homesteader Records]  
**[http://thislandpress.com/06/05/2010/oklahomas-all-black-towns/ Oklahoma's All-Black Towns]<br>
**[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald] - promoted African American homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory


'''Books to read'''
Homestead Records<br>[http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.ht[[Category:African American Records]]  
*McPherson, James M. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/atlas-of-the-civil-war/oclc/318999229 ''The atlas of the Civil War'']. New York: Macmillan, 1994.
*Blattner, Teresa, ''People of Color: Black Genealogical Records and Abstracts from Missouri Sources" (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, c1993,c 1998) {{WorldCat|29334936|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}};{{FSC|597154|item|disp=FS Library Book 977.8 F2bt volume 1 and 2}}''
*Brown, William Wells, ''Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave'' (NY, NY: Johnson Reprint, 1970) {{WorldCat|457165953|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|45483|item|disp=FS Catalog book 921.73 B815b}}
*Franklin, Jimmie Lewis, ''Blacks in Oklahoma'' (U.S.A.: University of Oklahoma, c1980). ''Digital Copy at'' [https://digitalprairie.ok.gov/digital/collection/culture/id/112/rec/7 Oklahoma Digital Prairie].
*Mallory, Rudena Kramer, ''Claims by Missourians for compensation of enlisted slaves: records of the U.S. District Court of Kansas, Slave Compensation Records, November 3, 1866 to February 21, 1867, Record Group 21, National Archives-Central Plains Region, Kansas City, Missouri'' (SLC, Utah:Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992) {{FSC|551311|item|disp=FS Library film 1597959 item 4}}
*Lee, George R., ''Slavery North of St. Louis'' (Canton, Missouri: Lewis County Historical Society, Missouri, [200?]) {{WorldCat|44094812|disp=At other libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|1483403|item|disp=FS Catalog book 977.8 H6L}}
*''State Slavery Statues'' (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1989) {{FSC|723107|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6118911}}
*United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands and Washington Reginald, ''Records of the field offices for the state of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1972: NARA, RG 105, M1908'' (College Park, MD: NARA, 2004) {{FSC|1461239|item|disp=FS Library films 2426982–2427005}}


==Resources==
*[http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.htm Homestead Ac[[Category:African American Records]]
===Biographies===
*[http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~swokla/custer/homested.html Oklahoma Homesteader Record[[Category:African American Records]]
===Cemeteries===
*[http://thislandpress.com/06/05/2010/oklahomas-all-black-towns/ Oklahoma's All-Black Town[[Category:African American Records]]<br>
===Census Records===
*[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald]promoted African American homesteading in the Oklahoma Territory.
===Church Records===
===Emancipation Records===
===Funeral Homes===
*[https://app.air.inc/a/borzvL1af/b/8dc76b25-27b0-42b5-a889-6c7027db068f CAAGS Obituary and Funeral Home Collection] at California African American Genealogical Society - index & images


===Genealogies===
=== Migration  ===
===Land and Property===
====Plantation====
===Obituaries===
*[https://app.air.inc/a/borzvL1af/b/8dc76b25-27b0-42b5-a889-6c7027db068f CAAGS Obituary and Funeral Home Collection] at California African American Genealogical Society - index & images


===Oral Histories===
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF001.html African American Exodus to Canad[[Category:African American Records]]
*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ewyatt/_borders/Oklahoma%20Slave%20Narratives/Slave%20Narrative%20Index.html Oklahoma Slave Narratives]  
*[http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/blacks_early_settlements.html Blacks: &nbsp;Early Settlements (African-Canadians)]


===Other Records===
=== Military  ===
'''City Directories'''<br>
*Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory: includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:{{FSC|746676|item|disp=1994331 Item 6}})


'''Migration'''
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BU005.html Buffalo Soldier[[Category:African American Records]]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF001.html African American Exodus to Canada]  
*[http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/blacks_early_settlements.html Blacks:  Early Settlements (African-Canadians)]


'''Prison Records'''<br>
=== Newspapers  ===
*Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma<br>Schools "The Aylesworth State Prison Farm was an all-black prison located in Marshall County and was in existence between 1916 and 1925." -- P. 1. (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number: {{FSC|1341762|item|disp=1838318 Item 14}})
===Military Records===
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BU005.html Buffalo Soldiers]


===Newspapers===
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NE013.html Newspapers, African American&nbsp;]  
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NE013.html Newspapers, African American ]  
*[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald]  
*[http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aaw/langston-city-herald Langston City Herald]  
*[http://www.worldcat.org/title/pioneer-newspaper-c1898-1905/oclc/71000957&referer=brief_results Pioneer newspaper, c[a.] 1898-1905]The Pioneer was an African American newspaper published in Muskogee County.
*[http://www.worldcat.org/title/pioneer-newspaper-c1898-1905/oclc/71000957&referer=brief_results Pioneer newspaper, c[a.] 1898-1905]The Pioneer was an African-American newspaper published in Muskogee County.


===Probate Records===
=== Oral History  ===
===Reconstruction Records===
====Freedman’s Bank====
====Freedmen's Bureau====
===School Records===
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LA021.html Langston University]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR017.html Freedman Schools]


===Slavery Records===
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ewyatt/_borders/Oklahoma%20Slave%20Narratives/Slave%20Narrative%20Index.html Oklahoma Slave Narrative[[Category:African American Records]]  
*In the 1830s, African American slavery was established in the Indian Territory, the region that would become Oklahoma. By the late eighteenth century, when over half a million Africans were enslaved in the South, the five southern Indian societies of that region--Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole--had come to include both enslaved and small numbers of free African Americans <ref>[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/S/SL003.html Oklahoma State Digital Library]</ref>


===Vital Records===
=== Prison Records ===
====Birth====
====Marriage====
====Death====


Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma<br>Schools "The Aylesworth State Prison Farm was an all black prison located in Marshall County and was in existence between 1916 and 1925." -- P. 1.&nbsp;(FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=1341762&disp=Aylesworth+State+Prison+Farm%2C+1916-1++ 1838318 Item 14])


====Divorce====
=== Schools  ===
===Voting Records===
==Archives and Libraries==
[http://www.blackarchives.org/ The Black Archives of Mid-America], located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.


==Societies==
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/L/LA021.html Langston Universit[[Category:African American Records]]
*[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FR017.html Freedman School[[Category:African American Records]]


=== Sharecropping and Tenant Farming  ===


=== References  ===
[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE009.html Tenant Farming and Sharecroppin[[Category:African American Records]]
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[[United State][[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go t][[Oklahoma Genealogy|Oklahom] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go t] African American Resources for Oklahoma

A list of resources to research African American ancestors who lived in Oklahoma.


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Archives and Libraries[edit | edit source]

[http://www.blackarchives.org/ The Black Archives of Mid-Americ, located in Kansas City, Missouri, is a center for learning and research into the African American experience in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma and the Midwest at large.

City Directories[edit | edit source]

Muskogee Oklahoma Negro Directory : includes the town of Taft (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number:1994331 Item 6)

Freedmen[edit | edit source]

History of African American Oklahomans
[1]

[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/A/AF003.html African American

Homestead Records
[http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/Homestead.Act.ht

Migration[edit | edit source]

Military[edit | edit source]

[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/B/BU005.html Buffalo Soldier

Newspapers[edit | edit source]

Oral History[edit | edit source]

[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ewyatt/_borders/Oklahoma%20Slave%20Narratives/Slave%20Narrative%20Index.html Oklahoma Slave Narrative

Prison Records[edit | edit source]

Aylesworth State Prison Farm, 1916-1925, Marshall County, Oklahoma
Schools "The Aylesworth State Prison Farm was an all black prison located in Marshall County and was in existence between 1916 and 1925." -- P. 1. (FamilySearch Catalog Film Number: 1838318 Item 14)

Schools[edit | edit source]

Sharecropping and Tenant Farming[edit | edit source]

[http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/T/TE009.html Tenant Farming and Sharecroppin

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