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*'''1780-1939:''' {{RecordSearch|3460246|United States, Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Indenture and Manumission Records - FamilySearch Historicl Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | *'''1780-1939:''' {{RecordSearch|3460246|United States, Indenture and Manumission Records, 1780-1939}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Indenture and Manumission Records - FamilySearch Historicl Records|How to Use this Collection]]; index & images | ||
*'''1865-1872''' {{RecordSearch|2515867|United States Freedmen's Bureau Land and Property Records 1865-1872}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records 1865-1872 Coverage Table|Coverage Table]], index & images | *'''1865-1872''' {{RecordSearch|2515867|United States Freedmen's Bureau Land and Property Records 1865-1872}} at FamilySearch - [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; [[United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Land and Property Records 1865-1872 Coverage Table|Coverage Table]], index & images | ||
*[https://enslaved.org/ Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade] - includes records of those enslaved, including court records, and links to relevant databases and projects documenting individuals | |||
*[https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/ People Not Property: Slave Deeds] at Digital Library on American Slavery - index & images; mostly for North Carolina counties | *[https://dlas.uncg.edu/deeds/ People Not Property: Slave Deeds] at Digital Library on American Slavery - index & images; mostly for North Carolina counties | ||
*[https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx Land Patent Search] at Bureau of Land Management-General Land Office Records - index | *[https://glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx Land Patent Search] at Bureau of Land Management-General Land Office Records - index | ||
*[https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/lantern/ The Lantern Project (Legal Records Documenting Enslaved Persons)] at Mississippi State University Libraries — index & images | |||
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After the Civil War many African Americans took advantage of the Homestead Act to obtain almost free federal land in return for occupying and improving it. The application papers for this federal farm, mining, or timber land contain genealogical information and clues. Only about 40 percent of people who applied for homestead land finished the process and received the land patent. Those that finished have been indexed. The homestead index is available on the Internet. For more details see the Wiki article [[Land Patent Search|Land Patent Search]]. | After the Civil War many African Americans took advantage of the Homestead Act to obtain almost free federal land in return for occupying and improving it. The application papers for this federal farm, mining, or timber land contain genealogical information and clues. Only about 40 percent of people who applied for homestead land finished the process and received the land patent. Those that finished have been indexed. The homestead index is available on the Internet. For more details see the Wiki article [[Land Patent Search|Land Patent Search]]. | ||
*''Agrarianism and | *''Agrarianism and Reconstruction Politics : the Southern Homestead Act'' by Michael L. Lanza, Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana State University Press, 1990. {{FSC|608108|item|disp= FS Catalog book 973 R2lm}}; {{WorldCat|19774886|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}. Public lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, and Florida. | ||
Homestead applications for the 60 percent who never finished are available at the National Archives, but a researcher will need to find the legal description of the land they started to homestead in order to find the application papers. There is no index to homestead applications that were not completed. | Homestead applications for the 60 percent who never finished are available at the National Archives, but a researcher will need to find the legal description of the land they started to homestead in order to find the application papers. There is no index to homestead applications that were not completed. | ||