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Instead, place individual profiles into the category corresponding to the county of North Carolina where they held enslaved persons. According to the 1850 US Census Slave Schedule, there were 290,410 slaves in North Carolina in 1850. See also: Slavery in North Carolina Resources.
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Researching ancestors believed to have been enslaved can be challenging, since the record trail is spotty prior to 1865. The 1870 federal 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. Even if one knows that an ancestor was bor...
Slaves were enumerated on all federal census records from 1790 to 1860, but notby name. From the 1870 census (in which all persons were named), proceed backwards to the 1860 and 1850 slave schedules that list, under the name of the owner, each slave only by sex, specific age, and color. Look for a male or female (and his family, if appropriate) who...
Records of slave ownership may be public or private. Public records are those created by the owner as required by local, state, and national governments. Local records, i.e., the county records in North Carolina, are the most fruitful for genealogists. These record marriages of owners, deeds of gift or deeds of trust of slaves, purchase or sale of ...
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). Since these are personal records are for private use, they may be difficult to find. Those that have survived may still be in the posse...
Websites
1. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938. Online (American Memory), Manuscript Division and Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. 2. Freedman’s Bank Records. 27 reels National Archives microfilm Record Group 101; CD-ROM, Salt Lake City, UT: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2000; HeritageQuest database. (Available remotely to NC residents via NC LIVEthrough their local libraries). [Includes signatures of and personal identifi...
Books
1. Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots, a Beginner’s Guide to Tracing the African-American Family Tree. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. 2. Byrd, William L., III, and John H. Smith. North Carolina Slaves and Free Persons of Color series. Westminster, MD: Heritage Books, 2000- . 3. Catterall, Helen Tunnicliff. Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro. 5 volumes. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1926-37. 4. Cooper, Jean L. A Genealogical Index to the Guides of the M...
Articles
1. Brasfield, Curtis. “ ‘To My Daughter and the Heirs of Her Body:’ Slave Passages As Illustrated by the Latham-Smithwick Family.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 81 (December 1993): 270-282. 2. Brasfield, Curtis G. “Tracing Slave Ancestors: Batchelor, Bradley, Branch, and Wright of Desha County Arkansas.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 92 (March 2004): 6-30. 3. Jupiter, Del E. “From Agustina to Ester: Analyzing a Slave Household for Child-Parent Relationships.” National Gene...
The following is a list of notable people who owned other people as slaves, where there is a consensus of historical evidence of slave ownership, in alphabetical order by last name. Part of a series on.
Slavery was legally practiced in the Province of North Carolina and the state of North Carolina until January 1, 1863, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Prior to statehood, there were 41,000 enslaved African-Americans in the Province of North Carolina in 1767.
Analyzing the history of slavery in North Carolina provides valuable clues that allow the scholar to understand the role of slavery and why many slaves chose to run away. Colonial North Carolina: 1748-1775
Buried in these documents are the names and other data on roughly 80,000 slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both slave owners and non-slave owners.
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From the 1870 census, the researcher should pro-ceed backwards to the 1860 and 1850 separate slave schedules which list, under the name of the owner, each slave by sex, specific age, and color only; no slave names are given.
