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'Free Negro Registers' - Library of Virginia

Documents in this collection represent pages from bound registers recording free Black and multiracial people of African descent across Virginia localities. They differ from the loose documents in the "Free Negro" Registrations collection.

“Free Negro Registers” From Virginia Untold Now Available On From The Page

Amazon.com - Books by Paul Heinegg for Free African Americans

Ancestry Wiki - Researching Free Blacks

Ancestry.com - Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810 $

Original source: Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Maryland and Delaware from the Colonial Period to 1810. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2000. City of Savannah, Research Library & Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Free Blacks and Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census $

Original source: Motes, Margaret Peckham. Free Blacks and Mulattos in South Carolina 1850 Census. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2002. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - Savannah, Georgia, U.S., Registers of Free Persons of Color, 1817-1864 $

Original source: Savannah, Georgia, Registers of Free Persons of Color. 5600CL-130 (mf). Microfilm, 3 rolls. City of Savannah, Research Library & Municipal Archives, Savannah, Georgia. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Antebellum Emancipations and Free People of Color (RootsTech)

By LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson and Deborah A. Abbott

Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic

Examines the activities of newly-freed African Americans in the North as they struggled to forge organizations and institutions to promote their burgeoning communities and to attain equal rights in the face of slavery and racism.

FamilySearch Wiki - Free African Americans Before the Civil War - International Institute

FamilySearch Wiki - United States, Registers of Free People of Color - FamilySearch Historical Records

Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware

Free Black Registers, Albemarle County, Virginia

Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period - The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship | Exhibitions (Library of Congress) ^FREE

Free Negro Registers Published in the Magazine of Virginia Genealogy

Free Negro Registers, 1797-1861. | Arlington Public Library ^FREE

Free People of Color in Louisiana

Free People of Color in Louisiana | Louisiana Digital Library ^FREE

Digitized collections include entire collections of papers from families or individuals that were free people of color. Many of these extend, chronologically, beyond the end of slavery. Being a free person of color ceased to have legal meaning after emancipation and the passage of the 13th Amendment, but having been a member of that class continued to have cultural, racial, social, economic, and political implications for those who had been free people of color in the antebellum period, and for generations of their descendants.

Freedom in the Archives: Free African Americans in Colonial America - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life ^FREE

Hidden in Plain Sight: Free People of Color in Your Family Tree (RootsTech)

By Cheri Daniels