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Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, c2003. Researching ancestors believed to have been enslaved can be challenging, since the record trail is spotty prior to 1865. Those with Slave Listings are indicated as such or by links to their Wills Johnston (d.1806) veteran of Battle of King's Mountain, The Allred Family owned 14 Mother, Thy Name Is Mystery! 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Allen Kirk on the Wilmington Race Riot, North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (19001929), Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation, Primary Source: New Bern Daily Journal on Municipal Electric Services, Primary Source: Max Bennet Thrasher on Rural Free Delivery, Primary Source: Consequences of the Telephone, Primary Source: Announcing the First Flight, Primary Source: Newspaper Coverage of the First Flight, Primary Source: Letter Promoting the Good Roads Movement, Primary Source: Charles Brantley Aycock and His Views on Education, Primary Source: Woman's Association for Improving School Houses, Primary Source: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Primary Source: Bulletin on Sanitation and Privies, Propaganda and Public Opinion in the First World War, The Increasing Power of Destruction: military technology in World War I, Primary Source: The Importance of Camp Bragg, Primary Source: Speech on Conditions at Camp Greene, Primary Source: Letter Home from the American 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the Five Royales: From Gospel to Rhythm & Blues, An Industry Representative visits Loray Mills, Congress Considers an Inquiry Into Textile Strikes, The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945), Primary Source: Roosevelt on the Banking Crisis, Primary Source: Excerpt of Child Labor Laws in North Carolina, Primary Source: Statute on Workplace Safety, Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression, Primary Source: Interviews on Rural Electrification, Primary Source: Mary Allen Discusses a Farm Family in Sampson County, 4-H and Home Demonstration During the Great Depression, Primary Source: Records of Eugenical Sterilization in North Carolina, Roads Taken and Not Taken: Images and the Story of the Blue Ridge Parkway Missing Link", Primary Source: Louella Odessa Saunders on Self-Sufficient Farming, Primary Source: A Textile Mill Worker's Family, Primary Source: Juanita Hinson and the East Durham Mill Village, Primary Source: Begging Reduced to a System, Primary Source: Lasting Impacts of the Great Depression, Primary Source: Roosevelt's "A date which will live in infamy" Speech, Primary Source: Americans React to Pearl Harbor, The Science and Technology of World War II, Primary Source: Landing in Europe, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear, Primary Source: Soldier Interview on Battle of the Bulge, Primary Source: Enlisting for Service in World War II, Primary Source: Basic Training in World War II, Face to Face with Segregation: African American marines at Camp Lejune, Primary Source: Black Soldiers on Racial Discrimination in the Army, Primary Source: Richard Daughtry on Surviving the Blitz, Primary Source: James Wall on Serving in the Air Force, Primary Source: Norma Shaver and Serving in the Pacific, Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 21, Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 23, North Carolina's Wartime Miracle: Defending the Nation, Japanese-American Imprisonment: Introduction, Japanese-American Imprisonment: WWII and Pearl Harbor, Japanese-American Imprisonment: Executive Order 9066 and Imprisonment, Japanese-American Imprisonment: Prison Camps, Japanese-American Imprisonment: Legal Challenges, Japanese-American Imprisonment: Closing Facilities and Life After, Primary Source: Poster Announcing Japanese American Removal and Relocation, Germans Attack Off of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Primary Source: Wartime Wilmington, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear, Primary Source: Margaret Rogers and Prisoners of War in North Carolina, 4-H and Home Demonstration Work during World War II, Primary Source: 4-H Club Promotional Materials, Primary Source: Report on 4-H club contributions to the war effort, Primary Source: North Carolina's Feed a Fighter Contest, Primary Source: Harry Truman on using the A-Bomb at Hiroshima, Primary Source: Veteran Discusses Occupying Japan, Primary Source: Dead and Missing from North Carolina in World War II, Selling North Carolina, One Image at a Time, More than Tourism: Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Post-War Years, The Harriet-Henderson Textile Workers Union Strike: Defeat for Struggling Southern Labor Unions, W. Kerr Scott: From Dairy Farmer to Transforming North Carolina Business and Politics, Governor Terry Sanford: Transforming the Tar Heel State with Progressive Politics and Policies, The Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Plant Strike, 1946, Alone but Not Afraid: Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, Robert F. Williams and Black Power in North Carolina, The NAACP in North Carolina: One Way or Another, Pauli Murray and 20th Century Freedom Movements, Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, The Pupil Assignment Act: North Carolina's Response to Brown v. Board of Education, With All Deliberate Speed: The Pearsall Plan, Perspective on Desegregation in North Carolina: Harry Golden's Vertical Integration Plan, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, Perspectives on School Desegregation: Fran Jackson, Perspectives on School Desegregation: Harriet Love, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement: Malcolm X Visits North Carolina in 1963, The Women of Bennett College: Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement, Desegregating Public Accommodations in Durham, The Precursor: Desegregating the Armed Forces. Boyd Plantation To My Daughter and the Heirs of Her Body: Slave Passages As Illustrated by the Latham-Smithwick Family.National Genealogical Society Quarterly81 (December 1993): 270-282.

Architects & Builders of Concord on Buffalo Creek, National Porter's Neck Plantation Salter Lloyd Plantation Sedgefield on the Sound David Hinton Register of Historic Places Application, "Lay Byrd, William L., III, and John H. Smith. Received 21 Slaves in 1853 from father of Also available through. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, from Interviews with Former Slaves. Slave Records Bibliography John P. Lawrence Plantation David W. Sander (1800-1860), Related article: Portridge Plantation Chang & Eng Plantation, Yadkin County Glenwood Plantation Wildwood, Michael White Rock Plantation Wood Lawn Plantation House), Iredell County Tusculum Washington [HerInteractive Guide for Beginnersis highly recommended.] Myrtle LawnProspect HillRose Hill Herring, National estate by 1765, when sold to Tryon in 1767, National 3 volumes. mi. Was one of largest turpentine plantations in NC, William L. Hill originally living, including now extinct Counties. William L. Byrd III and John H. Smith, for example, have transcribed records for a number of counties in the seriesNorth Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Color, published by Heritage Books. Owners & dates listed are (1810-1897), Nationa (1759-1791) Extinct County, Bryan Whitfield Archibald H. Davis Plantation(Cypress Hall) Fort Wayne, IN: Round Tower Books, 2000. Blue MarshButterwood Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat.National Genealogical Society Quarterly88 (September 2000): 201-224. 4640 Mail Service Center, of the State Legislature 1821-1822, had 20 Slaves in 1830, and 53 by 1840; 1870 census excerpt with African Americans listed by name. Porter's Neck Plantation Salter Lloyd Plantation Sedgefield on the Sound Abrams Plains County Oak Grove Plantation Stagg's Creek, Bath

Iredell County Northampton County Mowfield Moore County House Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hermitage Parsons New Bern NC, If anyone by Capt. Once thought to have been built in 1742, Ashland Plantation The 1870federal population census, the first on which former slaves are listed by name, can be confusing because individuals with shared surnames may be family members or former owners. The Aftermath of Martin Luther King's Assassination, Senator Sam Ervin: Interpreting Historical Figures, Something He Couldn't Write About: Telling My Daddy's Story of Vietnam, A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Herbert Rhodes, A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Tex Howard, A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: John Luckey, A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Robert L. Jones, A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Johnas Freeman, Nixon, Vietnam, and The Cold War/ Nixon's Accomplishments and Defeats, North Carolina's First Presidential Primary, Rebecca Clark and the Change in Her Path in Education, From Carter to G.W. County Cool Spring Plantation

Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926-37. Cooper, Jean L.A Genealogical Index to the Guides of the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. National Register Information System, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2003. The 1790, 1800, and 1810 census schedules indicate only the total number of slaves, but the 1820, 1830, and 1840 censuses list slaves by sex and age range. Vital Records in North Carolina Hyco Plantation Raleigh, NC 27699-4600, https://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/research/genealogy-and-family-history/family-records/records-enslaved-people, State Employees and Government Information, Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938, Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts, Michelle Underhill Named State Librarian of North Carolina, State Library Announces Federal Grants to Local Libraries, Adam Matthew Colonial America & Colonial Caribbean Resources Now Available Online. attraction, John Cedar Square Plantation (ca.1809-1891). One could acquire slaves through purchase, inheritance, marriage, and natural "increase" (the children, grandchildren, etc., of enslaved adults). as listed in the National Historic Places, later research found it was Marcus Royster Plantation, Halifax County wife, Bettie Norman, Mendenhall Finding a Place Called Down home: A Guide to African American Genealogy and Historical Identity. John B. Seavy House, Stokes County Private records (family Bibles recording their births or deaths [like the one at right], business ledgers, contracts, leases, and other records relating to the health and work of their slaves) are kept by owner(s). Shelton Plantation House

for researching, visit County 2. Instructions for Submittingg page. The Cameron family of Orange County was one of antebellum North Carolinas wealthiest families. Federal Writers Project [WPA]. Oak Grove Plantation William T. Smith Plantation House Salter Notes and Documents: Can Researchers Prove the Unprovable? William Antebellum Home Photos, Thanks acres, major crop was Ancestors.

County Apple Tree Plantation A Southern gem's fate, Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. Locust Lawn If you need instructions Walker's Run, Onslow Granville County A Virginian Responds to Dunmore's Proclamation, Mary Slocumb at Moores Creek Bridge: The Birth of a Legend, The North Carolina Constitution and Declaration of Rights, The Cherokees' and Catawbas' Stance in the Revolutionary War, Boundary Between North Carolina and the Cherokee Nation, 1767, The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain, Muskets and Rifles: The Soldier's Experience, The First National Government: The Articles of Confederation, North Carolina Demands a Declaration of Rights, Thomas Jefferson on Manufacturing and Commerce, Into the Wilderness: Circuit Riders Take Religion to the People, Description of a Nineteenth Century Revival, "Be saved from the jaws of an angry hell", Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of the Gospel, Born in Slavery, Searching for Greener Pastures: Out-Migration in the 1800s, Migration Into and Out of North Carolina: Exploring Census Data, North Carolina's Leaders Speak Out on Emigration, Archibald Murphey Proposes a System of Public Education, Archibald Murphey Calls for Better Inland Navigation, John Chavis Opens a School for White and Black Students, Education and Literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810, A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830), A Timeline of North Carolina Colleges (17661861), From the North Carolina Gold-Mine Company, Debating War with Britain: Against the War, Dolley Madison and the White House Treasures, The Expansion of Slavery and the Missouri Compromise, Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1, Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1, Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15, Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831, Chief John Ross Protests the Treaty of New Echota, Reform Movements Across the United States, 1835 Amendments to the North Carolina Constitution, North Carolina's First Public School Opens, Dorothea Dix Pleads for a State Mental Hospital, Social Divisions in Antebellum North Carolina, Runaways and Slave Hunters in the Dismal Swamp, Naval Stores in Antebellum North Carolina, Indian Cabinetmakers in Piedmont North Carolina, Estimated Cost of the North Carolina Rail Road, 1851, Joining Together in Song: Piedmont Music in Black and White, Timeline of the Civil War, JanuaryJune 1861, Timeline of the Civil War, July 1861-July 1864, The Civil War: from Bull Run to Appomattox, North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield: May 1861-April 1862, Rose O'Neal Greenhow Describes the Battle of Manassas, North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, May 1862November 1864, The RaleighStandardProtests Conscription, Cargo Manifests of Confederate Blockade Runners, Iowa Royster on the March into Pennsylvania, "I am sorry to tell that some of our brave boys has got killed", A Civil War at Home: Treatment of Unionists, Timeline of the Civil War, August 1864May 1865, North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, November 1864May 1865, Wilmington, Fort Fisher, and the Lifeline of the Confederacy, Parole Signed by the Officers and Men in Johnston's Army, "Can the very Spirit of Freedom Die out? in 1850; he had 165 Slaves in 1860, Near Johnston plantation. Griffin's Quarter Reprint, St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1976. Hertford County Hare Plantation House, Hoke County Mill Prong Puppy Creek Plantation (McGregor-Lamont

Granville County Bloomsbury Red Shoals Plantation Even if one knows that an ancestor was born during slavery, work backwards from the most current census (currently 1940) to the earliest known record of the ancestor(s). Cooper, Jean L.A Genealogical Index to the Guides of the Microfilm Edition of Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Mills, Gary B. (d. 1686) and descendants, Millie & Christine McKoy Highway Marker D-74, R. Gibbs purchased ca.

Dawson Place & Green's Thoroughfare, 4 How to Research Enslaved People, Alamance Plantation, Caswell White, Barnetta McGhee, compiler. Pool Rock Plantation 1800; later purchased by Rothwell family at least prior to 1835 when Local records, i.e., the county records in North Carolina, are the most fruitful for genealogists. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project, 1936-1938. Elijah B Perry Plantation Freedmans Bank Records. Eden House Elmwood Plantation Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986. Peebles, Minnie K. Black Genealogy.North Carolina Historical Review55 (Spring 1978): 164-173. County Bear Garden article, Sept 1, 1986, Julia Pickens Gwyn letter to Selina Louisa Avery Lenoir, Thackery, David T., and Dee Woodtor. Cedar Square Plantation Plantation Hope Plantation Leary Plantation Mt. (1801-1849) Local records, i.e., the county records in North Carolina, are the most fruitful for genealogists. Register of Historic Places Application, James Cathcart Thackery, David T.Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginners Guide. Lewis Wimbish Plantation What do I still not know and where can I find that information? Wood Lawn Plantation Searching all known and suspected family members' births, deaths, and marriages, often identifies connections not immediately obvious. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2000- . Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1986. What opinions are related in this source? Register of Historical Places Application, No Slaves in 1850; 42 Brasfield, Curtis. Hayes Plantation Tyro Plantation, Dobbs Mount Mourne Buxton Place To My Daughter and the Heirs of Her Body: Slave Passages As Illustrated by the Latham-Smithwick Family.National Genealogical Society Quarterly81 (December 1993): 270-282. Robeson County Greene County and Connections, Benjamin Franklin Little Papers, 1806-1935, (Humphrey-Williams-Smith House & Plantation), National Burroughs, Tony. Woodlawn PlantationHarnett Look for a male or female (and his family, if appropriate) who is 10 and 20 years younger than the individual(s) previously identified on the 1870 census schedule.

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