Alabama African American Genealogy Research
African American Genealogy records are much more difficult to find due to the scant nature of record keeping for blacks prior to the Civil War. We have modeled this center much like we have for Native Americans, whose research can also be hampered by the available records. The links below provide an accurate reflection of what African American genealogy is available online.
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Alabama African American Genealogy
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Online African American Books at AccessGenealogy
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Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
Autobiography of the First Graduate of color from the US Military Academy -
History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War
along with other items on interest -
Clotelle or The Colored Heroine
A novel, I leave it to the reader to determine if fact or fiction -
Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18, The Fugitive Slave Law, and its Victims Listings of many slaves, their capture and return to slavery
Ancestry.com Slave
Narratives - Free Search
Perhaps no other resource
approaches the range of human experience found in Ancestry.com's Slave
Narratives. This collection of interviews stands in contrast to other
slave narratives that appear
in most literature anthologies which were written by the rare few who,
against staggering odds, had become literate. This database provides a
more poignant picture of what it was to live as a slave in the American
South. Taken from The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, this
collection is the most complete available picture of the African-American
slavery experience. There is simply no other historical document quite
like it. The collection contains over 20,000 pages of type-scripted
interviews with more than 3,500 former slaves collected over a ten year
period. (Requires Ancestry.com Membership)
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14 Days Free Access!!!
Articles to Assist Your research:
African
American Research, Part 1
Genealogical techniques used to track slave families before the Civil War
are necessarily quite different than those used for white or free African
Americans.
Alabama Slave Project - ALGenWeb
Alabama
People of Color Heritage Book Project
The purpose of this project is to preserve the history of as many
African-American families as possible. Some of you may have been
collecting and documenting your history for years, but never thought about
sharing it with anyone other than your immediate family. You can submit
family stories, family trees, data, pictures, and more. The only
requirement is the topic must be relevant to Alabama families and
histories.
Appraisement
and Inventory of Slaves in Wills, Macon County AL
Afro-American
Historical and Genealogical Society
P. O. 73086
Washington DC 20056-3086
The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc. (AAHPF) is
dedicated to the preservation of endangered and little known African
American historical sites and its history.
American
Cross Race Genealogy Research
Devoted to finding and developing more resources for
those of us researching American cross-racial family history and/or
ancestors who were or may have been of mixed-race ancestry.
Black
Cherokees
Black
Chickasaws
Black
Choctaws
Black
Creeks
Black
Seminoles
Middle Passage History
The Middle Passage was a term used to describe the
triangular route of trade that brought Africans to the Americas and rum
and sugar cane to Europe. It was synonymous with pain and suffering. The
journey from Africa to the Americas would take as many as 30 to 90 days.
African-American
Surnames Database
African-American
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors
African
American Warriors - Links to surname databases related to several wars
1850 Lawrence
County, Alabama Slave Census
1850
Federal Census, Slave Schedule
1860
Federal Census, Slave Schedule
1870
Federal Census, Black Households, Perry County
Register of
Slaves Brought into Perry County, 1832
Marriage
Records Index Colored Wilcox County 1873-1877
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Ocmulgee
Church
(Baptist) Black and Slave Members
Antioch
Baptist Church Cemetery
Little
Zion #1 Baptist Church Cemetery
Old
Snow Hill Cemetery
Dulaney
AME Church Cemetery
Macedonia
Baptist Church Cemetery
1850 Federal Census,
Mortality Schedule, Lowndes County