27 January 2023
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From the Library of Congress.
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African American Trail Project
The African American Trail Project is a collaborative public history initiative housed at Tufts University. Originally inspired by the scholarship of Tufts Professor Gerald R. Gill (1948-2007) and driven by faculty and student research, this project maps African American and African-descended public history sites across greater Boston, and throughout Massachusetts. The African American Trail Project aims to develop African American historical memory and intergenerational community, placing present-day struggles for racial justice in the context of greater Boston’s historic African American, Black Native, and diasporic communities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ARGO - African-American History
ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online is an exciting new project led by Fred W. Smith Library National Library at George Washington’s Mount Vernon and the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. Leveraging new technology and the recent drive by many museums, libraries, and archives to digitize their collections, the portal will collate digitized maps of North America made between 1750 and 1800 into a single user-friendly portal.
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Black code of Illinois (Internet Archive)
by Eastman, Zebina
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From the Newark Public Library.
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FamilySearch - Mississippi Enumeration of Educable Children, 1850-1892; 1908-1957 FREE
These records are lists of students prepared by the counties and school districts. School records can be a viable substitute for birth records. These include the names of both black and white students. The early records include the names of students and the school attended. More recent records include the age of the child and a parent or guardian's name.
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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.
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Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices
This is a map of Field Offices established by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Land, also known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The record of these offices have been microfilmed by the National Archives.
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Historical Maps Related to the William Still Collection
This 1901 map, contemporary to William and Caroline Still's time, has been overlaid with markers showing the former locations of prominent Philadelphia African-Americans and African-American institutions related to the life and times of William Still and Caroline Still Wiley Anderson. The Seventh Ward of Philadelphia contained the largest population of African-Americans in the city at that time, and was the subject of sociological studies by W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Illinois Country Living, Illinois History Teacher, Illinois Libraries, Illinois Parks & Recreation, Illinois Heritage, Illinois Issues, Illinois Municipal Review, OutdoorIllinois.
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A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture.
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Migrations: African-American Mosaic Exhibition
From the Library of Congress.
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Records for Free People of Color in the United States
from the International African American Museum Center for Family History
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Researching African American Ancestors: Records of Free People of Color
From the State Library of North Carolina
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Story Map Project: Fauquier’s Historic African American Communities
The Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County and The Piedmont Environmental Council are excited to share a new, interactive, online story map documenting the African American experience in Fauquier County.
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The Jackson Family - Virtual Belle Grove
The Jackson family story starts in the early 1800s with Emanuel Jackson (1786), a free African American; Hannah Thornton, an enslaved woman at Belle Grove; and their six enslaved children – five sons and one daughter.
