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No Land...Only Slaves!

Book or CD-ROM of almost 4,000 slave names abstracted from the Deeds of Conveyance,Volume 1-6, from Bossier Parish, Louisiana (1841-1865).
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Notes And Documents of Free Persons of Color

A true chronicle of the history of a group labled, Free Persons of Color, in Colonial Virginia. The group were a mixture of Native/African/whites, who were Virginia's own Creole Population. It is the saga of a group labeled, fpc, or Free Persons of Color, by the Virginia Free Negro Registry. The book is available from Lulu Press, Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Blackwell Books, and Walmart (to name a few). BOOKER, BOWDEN, COOPER, EVANS, JACKSON, LEWIS, PINN, POWELL, REDCROSS, WASHINGTON, ROGERS, ROWE.

Slave Ancestry Research, It's Something Else (Amazon)

A book by Mary L. Jackson Fears.

Slave Manumissions & Sales in Harford County Maryland 1774-1865

A book by Carolyn Greenfield Adams. It was once widely held that records did not exist for African American families before 1865. This is not true for Harford County Maryland. This book contains manumission and sales records from 1774-1865 giving information on individuals or families, dates of birth, ages and occupations based on data from over five hundred documents representing a total of about two thousand names which are indexed manumissions.

Slave Trading in the Old South (Amazon.com)

By Frederic Bancroft

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Amazon.com)

By Richard Rothstein

The Colored American

1900-1909 Booker T. Washington. President of Tuskegee University took it over, it was among the most important Periodical Magazine of 20th Century. It's where Black American's accomplishments were showcased. In science, arts, medicine, politics, and business fields. Content for women and children as well. All the issues are digitized.

The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Amazon.com)

By Daina Ramey Berry

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - A Database on CD-ROM

Contains the records of 27,233 transatlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866 from all over Europe.

The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

The Wessyngton Plantation was established in 1796 by Joseph Washington 1770-1848, a cousin of President Washington. By 1860 Wessyngton encompassed more than 15,000 acres and held 274 slaves there. Names associated with the plantation include: WASHINGTON, CHEATHAM, BLOW, GREEN, WHITE, WILLIAMS, TERRY, LEWIS, SCOTT, and GARDNER. I have traced all the families from this plantation (descendants of the plantation owners and the enslaved population). A detailed history of the plantation can also be found in my book The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom.