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==Online Resources== | ==Online Resources== | ||
*'''1775-1867''' [https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/ Race and Slavery Petitions] at Digital Library on American Slavery - index; court records regarding enslaved peoples; covers 15 slaveholding states | *'''1775-1867''' [https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/ Race and Slavery Petitions] at Digital Library on American Slavery - index; court records regarding enslaved peoples; covers 15 slaveholding states | ||
*[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://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/lantern/ The Lantern Project (Legal Records Documenting Enslaved Persons)] at Mississippi State University Libraries — index & images | |||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
For the most part, besides being counted as chattel on tax records, land deeds, and census slave schedules, African Americans were not counted as people until the 1870 census. Other records of interest would be church records, which notes people of color being allowed or dispelled from the church, etc., but they were not always given a surname. Sometimes they were noted by their first name and "as belonging to 'X' slaveholder." Therefore, African American researchers are very dependent upon getting information from the slaveholding family's documentation. | For the most part, besides being counted as chattel on tax records, land deeds, and census slave schedules, African Americans were not counted as people until the 1870 census. Other records of interest would be church records, which notes people of color being allowed or dispelled from the church, etc., but they were not always given a surname. Sometimes they were noted by their first name and "as belonging to 'X' slaveholder." Therefore, African American researchers are very dependent upon getting information from the slaveholding family's documentation. | ||
*Gleaning Information About Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, NGS Magazine 48 #3 (April-June 2022): 23-27. {{FSC|4469739|item|disp=FS | *''Gleaning Information About Enslaved Ancestors from Probate Files,'' by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, NGS Magazine 48 #3 (April-June 2022): 23-27. {{FSC|4469739|item|disp=FS Catalog book 973 D25ngs v.48 no.2}} | ||
===Resources for Marriage, Census, and Cemetery Data=== | ===Resources for Marriage, Census, and Cemetery Data=== | ||
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===Websites=== | ===Websites=== | ||
*[https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ilissdsa/text_files/database_intro2.htm Slave Archival Collection] | *[https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ilissdsa/text_files/database_intro2.htm Slave Archival Collection] | ||
*[https://www.exploregenealogy.co.uk/USAfricanAmericanRecords.html#google_vignette Using U.S. African- American Records to Trace Ancestors Abroad]. - ExploreGenealogy | *[https://www.exploregenealogy.co.uk/USAfricanAmericanRecords.html#google_vignette Using U.S. African- American Records to Trace Ancestors Abroad]. - ExploreGenealogy | ||