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• 1850 Slave Schedule Census Form (NARA)

• 1860 Slave Schedule Census Form (NARA)

• Ancestry.com - 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules $

  Original source: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1,009 rolls. 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 - 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules $

  Original source: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• FamilySearch - United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ^FREE

  Name index and images of slave schedules listing slave owners and only age, gender and color data of the slaves in cesus states or territories in 1850. This was the first time that slave infomation was captured as a separate schedule. Indexed data and browse are available for the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Slave schedules are not available for other states.

• FamilySearch - United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860 ^FREE

  Name index of Slave Scheules from the Eight Census of the United States, 1860. Generally, the census only names the slave owner. Schedules exist for Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The images come from NARA microfilm publication M653.

• FamilySearch Wiki - United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860

• FamilySearch Wiki - United States Census, Slave Schedule, 1850

• Miscegenation and the American Slave Schedules (JSTOR)

  By Richard H. Steckel for The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Autumn, 1980)

• The 1850 and 1860 Census, Schedule 2, Slave Inhabitants (Wayback Machine)

  By David E. Paterson