African American Genealogy Records on the Internet

A Genealogy Research Guide - A Directory of Some Helpful Websites

General Listings - Slave Records, Census Records, Bank Records

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery with 500 photographs of former slaves

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (Library of Congress) includes online page images and transcriptions

Lowcountry Africana "...dedicated to records that document the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida..."

The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database

Slavery Era Insurance Registry California based insurance companies, but records are from various locations. If link doesn't work then try: Slavery Era Insurance Registry

Freedman's Bank Records, 1865-1874 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) bank depositor records of freed slaves from Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania & South Carolina

US Federal Census Indexes & Images 1790-1930 (requires payment - part of an Ancestry subscription) includes...
- Slave Schedules for 1850 & 1860 (slave schedules generally name the slave owners; slaves are listed by age & gender, but not named)
- Every name census indexes 1790-1930 (former slaves were first enumerated by name beginning in 1870)
- 1890 Civil War Widows & Veterans Census

Free African Americans of Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina & South Carolina 18th Century to early 19th Century

Index to Slave Compensation Claims found in the Compiled Service Records of U.S. Colored Troops (Union Soldiers - Civil War) most records are for Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland & Missouri or neighboring states

Illinois

Illinois Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722-1863)

Louisiana

Mississippi

Mississippi Freedmen's Bureau Record Index

Missouri

Missouri Slave Data

North Carolina

Slave Plantations of North Carolina
Durham County: Stagville Plantation Genealogy people who lived in the African American community at Stagville, North Carolina before the Civil War

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia African American Census 1847

Texas

The Texas Slavery Project (includes some online records)

Virginia

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