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Introduction [edit | edit source]

Resource for African American inquiry fall into 2 periods: pre-and mail service-Civil War. Mail service-Civil War research consists of consulting the same record types as non-African-Americans. Pre-Civil War records consist of slave importation declarations, plantation records, emancipation records, apprenticeship bonds for freedmen, Northward Carolina hiring practices, demography records, white family records, church and cemetery records, military machine records, vital records, and numerous Due north Carolina courtroom records. African American vital records were unremarkably recorded in dissever books for many years.

  • Marvin L. Michael Kay and Lorin Lee Cary. Slavery in North Carolina, 1748-1775. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, c1995. FHL 975.6 H6k
  • State Library of North Carolina: How to Find Slave records
  • Online Resources [edit | edit source]

    FamilySearch Collections

  • 1861-1872 United States, Freedmen's Agency Marriages, 1861-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Drove
  • 1862-1870 North Carolina, Freedmen'southward Bureau Assistant Commissioner Records, 1862-1870 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Drove
  • 1863-1872 North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Utilize this Collection
  • 1865-1874 Freedman's Banking concern Records, 1865-1874 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
  • African American Digital Bookshelf - a growing list of digital books on FamilySearch and other websites
  • Discover Freedmen - this site searches all of the Freedmen's Bureau record collections on FamilySearch altogether (and redirects there)
  • Additional Online Resources

    • U.S., Freedmen'south Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867 ($)
    • Sankfagen Wiki, plantations and slave names
    • U.Due south. Colored Troops Formed in Northward Carolina
    • North Carolina Freedmen Transported to Other States
    • Digital Library of American Slavery - Academy of North Carolina - Greensboro
    • NCGenWeb Project: African American Special Projects
    • Admission Genealogy: N Carolina African American Genealogy
    • Northward Carolina African American Griots
    • Afrigeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy
    • BlackPast.org - An online reference guide to African American History
    • Slavery and the African American Experience
    • The Trans-Atlantic Slave Merchandise Database
    • Index to Blackness Pioneers History - slaves & freemen who served with the British in Revolutionary War
    • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution - Online book published in 1855
    • African American Odyssey - Library of Congress records and exhibits
    • Slavery Era Insurance Registry - Slaves & slaveowners insurance policies throughout the South
    • The African American Migration Experience - Lots of resource for your research
    • Slave Voices from Duke University Special Collections - Highlights & Images of slave records housed at Knuckles University
    • Report on the Declared Outrages in Southern States - an 1871 Congressional report; see listing of NC Counties starting on page 19
    • Study of Services Rendered by Freed People to the US Army in 1862
    • The John Hope Franklin Drove on African American History
    • Race and Slavery Petitions Project
    • Fourth Generation Inclusive

    Research Strategy [edit | edit source]

    History [edit | edit source]

    Number of Slaves in North Carolina [1]
    1860 1850 1840 1830 1820 1810 1800 1790
    331059 288548 245817 245601 204917 168824 133296 100572
    • Exploring North Carolina: African American History
    • Crow, Jeffrey J. A History of African Americans in North Carolina.Raleigh, N Carolina: North Carolina. Division of Archives and History. Section of Cultural Resource, 1992. (Family History Library volume FHL Drove
    • The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution,With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons....
    • Patricia C. Click. Time full of trial : the Roanoke Island freedmen's colony, 1862-1867. FHL 975.6175 F2c


    For books about African Americans, come across the FamilySearch Catalog, using a Place Search nether:

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    Enquiry Guides [edit | edit source]

    • McBride, Bribe. "Searching for the By of the North Carolina Black Family in Local, Regional, and Federal Record Resources," The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May 1983):66-77. FHL Book 975.6 B2s five. 9.
    • Mitchell, Thornton W. Preliminary Guide to Records Relating to Blacks in the Due north Carolina Country Archives. Athenaeum Information Round 17 (June 1980): 1–17. FHL 975.vi B4a This guide describes the contents and availability of county, state, private, federal, and miscellaneous records.

    Resources [edit | edit source]

    Biographies [edit | edit source]

    Cemeteries [edit | edit source]

    • The African American Cemeteries of Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina (Facebook). A community forum for the African American cemeteries of Tidewater Virginia and North Carolina. Included are burial sites located in the counties and independent cities in the Tidewater regions of Virginia and Due north Carolina. Also includes cemetery news from around the U.s.a., and listings in Maryland, New Jersey, and Georgia.

    Census Records [edit | edit source]

    Census records are an important source for studying African American families. The 1850 and 1860 bloodshed schedules list all persons who died in the 12 months prior to the census and include the name, historic period, residence, state of birth, occupation, and cause of expiry. From 1870, censuses give every African American'south name, age, state of nativity, and other information. See:

    • African Americans in the 1870 Census. Family unit Tree Maker's Family Archives, no.165. Brøderbund Software, Novato, California, 1996. FHL CD-ROM no. 388 This disc does not broadcast to Family History Centers. This source indexes 660,000 African Americans in the 1870 federal census of Georgia, Northward Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, and St. Louis. It includes name, state, county, town, nascency date, birthplace, National Archives pic number, and page number.
    • 1860 Granville County Slave Schedule.Abstracted and explained by Barnetta McGhee White, a complete list that includes maps showing locations of where the families resided.

    Church Records [edit | edit source]

    Emancipation Records [edit | edit source]

    • William L. Byrd III. In full force and virtue : North Carolina emancipation records, 1713-1860.Bowie, Maryland : Heritage Books, Inc., c1999. At diverse libraries (WorldCat); FHL 975.half-dozen H6bw

    Funeral Homes [edit | edit source]

    Genealogies [edit | edit source]

    Land and Holding [edit | edit source]

    • North Carolina Estate Files, 1663-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Utilize this Collection; contain loose papers relating to the settlement of estates including such matters as provision for heirs including minor children too as distribution of funds, land and property, including slaves

    Plantation [edit | edit source]

    Slaves are occasionally mentioned in records of plantations described in the following series of booklets:

    • Stampp, Kenneth M. A Guide to Records of Ante- Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War: Serial F, Selections from the Manuscript Department, Duke University Library. Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1991. At diverse libraries (WorldCat); FHL book 975 H2sm ser. F and FHL book 975 H2sm ser. J. The guide for serial F lists records at the Duke University library. The serial J guide describes holdings at the library of the University of North Carolina. The guide booklets are not indexed, only, they depict in particular the contents of each microfilm. The Family unit History Library has microfilms of the North Carolina plantation records described in these guides:
    • Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War: Series F, Selections from the Manuscript Department, Duke Academy Library. Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1986–87. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL moving-picture show 1549774 (first picture)
    • Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War: Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the Academy of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Frederick, Maryland: University Publications of America, 1989–1992. At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL film 1672791 (get-go of 455)
    • Sankofagen Wiki, which contains info on Plantations and the names of many Slaves who lived on them.

    Police and Legislation [edit | edit source]

    • Land slavery statutes: North Carolina, ca. 1789-1865 (19 fiche) FHL 6118912

    Oral Histories [edit | edit source]

    Other Records [edit | edit source]

    Cohabitation Records
    Slaves were not allowed to legally marry. In 1886 many Cohabitation Certificates were issued and are on microfilm at the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh. This is a smashing guide that provides information about Cohabitation records and more more: Guide To Research Materials In the North Carolina Land Archives. To find Cohabitation records for each county, await under "marriages."

    For 1814 to 1866 information about husbands and wives who were one-time slaves in North Carolina has been published in:

    • White, Barnetta McGhee. Somebody Knows My Name: Marriages of Freed People in N Carolina, County by County. 3 vols. Athens, Georgia.: Iberian Publishing, 1995.At diverse libraries (WorldCat); FHL CD-ROM no. 2894. This book gives the husband's and wife'south names when they are given in the records. The records are bundled alphabetically past county.

    Military Records [edit | edit source]

    • Patriots of Color. Free database at Archives.com. Includes details about 250 blackness Northward Carolinians in the Revolutionary War.[two]
    • U.S. Colored Troops Formed In Northward Carolina - Lists of soldiers, Regiments & Regimental histories

    Newspapers [edit | edit source]

    • North Carolina Newspapers
      Notice Student, Community, Schools, and Town Due north Carolina Newspapers Online-GenealogyJustAsk.com
    • North Carolina Runaway Slavery Advertisements, 1750-1865

    Probate Records [edit | edit source]

    Reconstruction Records [edit | edit source]

    Number of Free People of Color in North Carolina [1]
    1860 1850 1840 1830 1820 1810 1800 1790
    30463 27463 22732 19543 14712 10266 7043 4975

    Many black families freed prior to 1820 are listed in: Heinegg, Paul. Free African-Americans of N Carolina and Virginia: Including the Family Histories of More Than 80% of Those Counted as "All Other Free Persons" in the 1790 and 1800 Demography. 3rd. ed. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing, 1993. FHL book 975.half dozen F2hp This book provides information apropos 281 families and oftentimes traces a family to the 1860s. An updated version is available online for free at Free African Americans.com.

    Freedman'south Banking company [edit | edit source]

    An first-class source is the Freedman'southward Savings and Trust Company (visit the African American Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records page to larn more). This company was created to assist African American soldiers of the Civil War and freed slaves. Freedman'due south Savings and Trust Company signature cards or registers from 3 March 1865 to 25 July 1874 may listing the name of the depositor, date of entry, age, birthplace, residence, complexion, name of employer or occupation, married woman or hubby'southward proper noun, death information, children's names, name of father and mother, brothers' and sisters' names, remarks, and signature. Early on books sometimes contained the name of the former master or mistress and the proper name of the plantation. Copies of decease certificates were sometimes attached to the entries. The collection is organized alphabetically by state, so city where the bank was located, then date the account was established, and then account number.

    Online collections of Freedman'southward Bank records:

    • 1865-1874 U.s.a., Freedman's Depository financial institution Records, 1865-1874 at FamilySearch - How to Apply this Collection
    • U.S., Freedman's Banking company Records, 1865-1871 ($)

    Due north Carolina had three branches of this banking company at New Bern, Raleigh, and Wilmington. The signature registers for these branches are institute in:

    Freedman's Savings and Trust Company (Washington, D.C.), 1865–1874. Registers of Signatures of Depositors in Branches of the Freedman's Savings and Trust Visitor, 1865–1874. National Athenaeum Microfilm Publications, M0816. Washington, DC: National Archives, 1969. Available online at FamilySearch, United States, Freedmans Bank Records, 1865-1874. Contains records for North Carolina.) In the records for each city, depositors are listed in order by account number. The registers of each N Carolina branch are as follows:


    The records of the Due north Carolina branches are published in:

    • Reaves, Pecker. North Carolina Freedman's Savings Trust Company Records. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Genealogical Social club, 1992. (Family History Library book FHL book 975.6 F2r. This book has abstracts of the genealogical data from the above records and is indexed.

    Freedmen's Bureau [edit | edit source]

    The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was created by the US government in 1865 until 1872 to aid former slaves in the southern U.s.a.. The Bureau created a broad variety of records extremely valuable to genealogists. Such documents include censuses, spousal relationship records, and medical records. These records often include full names, one-time masters and plantations, and current residences.[3] For 1865 and 1866, the department on abased and confiscated lands includes the names of the owners of the plantations or homes that were abandoned, confiscated, or leased. Information technology gives the canton and location, a description of the house, the number of acres owned, and the number of cabins of erstwhile slaves. These films do not appear to incorporate the names of former slaves.

    To find Freedmen'southward Bureau records:

    • DiscoverFreedmen - the search on this site volition utilize all of the Freedmen'south Bureau records on FamilySearch, including:
      • 1865-1872 - The states, Freedmen's Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - U.s., Freedmen's Agency Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - Usa, Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
      • 1861-1872 - United States, Freedmen's Agency Marriages, 1861-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Apply this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - United States, Freedmen's Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - United States, Freedmen's Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Apply this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - Usa, Freedmen's Bureau, Freedmen's Court Records, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Drove
      • 1865-1872 - The states, Freedmen'southward Bureau, Country and Property Records, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Utilize this Drove
      • 1865-1872 - U.s., Freedmen's Bureau, Records of Freedmen's Complaints, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Employ this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - United States, Freedmen'southward Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Educational activity and of the Sectionalization of Teaching, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
    • Other FamilySearch collections not included:
      • 1862-1870 - North Carolina, Freedmen's Agency Assistant Commissioner Records, 1862-1870 at FamilySearch - How to Apply this Collection; includes messages and endorsements sent and received, account books, applications for rations, applications for relief, court records, labor contracts, registers of bounty claimants, registers of complaints, registers of contracts, registers of disbursements, registers of freedmen issued rations, registers of patients, reports, rosters of officers and employees, special and general orders and circulars received, special orders and circulars issued, records relating to claims, court trials, property restoration, and homesteads.
      • 1863-1872 - North Carolina, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Utilise this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - United States Freedmen'southward Agency Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - United States Freedmen's Agency, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection
      • 1865-1872 - United States, Freedmen'southward Agency, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; Images only. These reports primarily contain statistical and historical information.
    • More collections are available in the FamilySearch Catalog. Search for "FREEDMEN - North Carolina" in the Subjects search bar to find.

    Roanoke Isle Freedmen'southward Colony

    • Patricia C. Clark. Time Full of Trial. The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony, 1862-1867. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. FHL 975.6175 F2c

    Visit the African American Freedmen's Agency Records page to acquire more about utilizing these records.

    Schoolhouse Records [edit | edit source]

    Slavery Records [edit | edit source]

    Additional resources are constitute on the African American Slavery and Chains Wiki page.

    Slaves are sometimes mentioned in deeds (see Northward Carolina Land and Property), in wills (see North Carolina Probate Records), in tax records, and in court lodge books (see Northward Carolina Court Records). You must know the name of the slave owner, and you can and then search these records by the possessor's name to detect the name of the slave. A few parish registers (see Northward Carolina Church building Records) list slaves who attended church with their masters. Their births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, or burials may be listed.

    The post-obit surnames in this database: Northward Carolina Probate Records, 1735-1970 have wills that mention slaves by name

    • Arthur Branch
    • Thomas Crowder
    • John Rhodes

    Many transcribed wills for all of the Counties have the names of Slaves included. Choose the County of your selection and visit the site's Will Index pages:

    • NCGenWeb List of Counties

    Digital Library on American Slavery: People Not Property - Slave Deeds of North Carolina, database of almost 10,000 property deeds (bills of sale, deeds of trust, divisions of holding)

    Runaway Advertisements

    Names of hundreds of delinquent slaves, their descriptions, owners, and ages tin can be found in:

    • Windley, Lathan A., comp. Runaway Slave Advertisements. Vol.one, Virginia and Northward Carolina. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. FHL 975 F2wL This volume is not indexed. The data is in chronological order from 1751–1790.
    • Freddie L. Parker. Running for freedom : slave runaways in North Carolina, 1775-1840.New York, New York : Garland Pub. Co., 1993. FHL 975.vi H6p
    • Due north Carolina Delinquent Slave Advertisements, 1750-1865

    Slave Laws
    Finkelman, Paul. State Slavery Statutes: Guide to the Microfiche Collection. Frederick, Maryland: University Pub. of America, 1989. FHL book 975 F23s This volume has information about laws passed that mention detail slaves. It is indexed by subjects, names, and geographic locations. The time period for names of Due north Carolina slaves is 1789–1854.

    • Digital Library of American Slavery

    Slave Records at the Family History Library [edit | edit source]

    • North Carolina Slavery and Bondage Collection

    Vital Records [edit | edit source]

    Birth [edit | edit source]

    • 1800-2000 North Carolina Nascency Index, 1800-2000 at FamilySearch - How to Apply this Collection; information may include name, nativity date and place, race, and parents
    • 1866-1964 Due north Carolina Births and Christenings, 1866-1964 at FamilySearch - How to Apply this Collection; information may include name, nascency date and identify, race, and parents

    Marriage [edit | edit source]

    • 1759-1979 Due north Carolina Marriages, 1759-1979 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Drove; information may include the bride and groom's proper name, historic period, and race and the union engagement and identify

    The Freedmen'southward Bureau (1865-1872) was created by the US authorities to aid sometime slaves in the southern United states of america. One of their responsibilities was to tape the marriages (past and present) of the former slaves. These records can exist found in the collections below and include the lists of marriages that occurred previously, marriage certificates, and marriage licenses. The information independent on the records may include the name of the married man and wife/groom and bride, age, occupation, residence, yr or date of matrimony, past whom, number of children, and remarks.

    • 1861-1872 - United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Drove
    • U.Southward., Freedmen'south Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867

    Decease [edit | edit source]

    • 1898-1994 - N Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994 at FamilySearch - How to Employ this Collection; information may include name, decease date and place, burial appointment and place, gender, age, birth engagement and place, race, marital status, and parents and their birthplaces
    • 1906-1930 - North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930 at FamilySearch - How to Utilize this Collection; name, death date and identify, gender, race, marital condition, nascence date and place, age, occupation, cause of decease, parents and their birthplaces, and burial appointment and place
    • 1931-1994 - North Carolina Deaths, 1931-1994 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; name, death engagement and identify, burial date and place, residence, gender, age, marital status, race, occupation, nativity date and place, parents and their birthplaces
    • Due north Carolina, Death Certificates, 1909-1976 - name, expiry date and place, residence, gender, race, birth engagement and place, age, parents, spouse

    Divorce [edit | edit source]

    Voting Registers [edit | edit source]

    • Frances Holloway Wynne. Northward Carolina extant voter registrations of 1867. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books,1992. FHL 975.vi N4w Covering the counties of Carteret, Chowan, Clay, Cleveland, Craven, Cumberland, Currituck, Davidson, Duplin, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gaston, Granville, Guilford, Hyde, Onslow, and Wake.

    Archives and Libraries [edit | edit source]

    Societies [edit | edit source]

    References [edit | edit source]

    1. 1.0 1.i Ninth Demography of the United States: Statistics of Population, Tables I to VIII Inclusive (Washington, D.C.: Authorities Printing Office, 1872), 53-54. Digital version at Net Archive; FHL Book 973 X2pcu.
    2. Dick Eastman, "Athenaeum.com to Publish the Patriots of Color Database," Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter, 24 February 2012, http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/02/archivescom-to-publish-the-patriots-of-color-database.html.
    3. "African American Records: Freedmen's Bureau," "African American Heritage," National Archives, accessed eleven May 2018.

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