American Slave Narratives: An Anthology Online . The 19, 1912 Unnamed man SumterFeb. 1. In the South the slaves are taken care of for past services, observed a New York newspaper writer in 1860. Instead, place individual profiles into the category corresponding to the county of Alabama where they held enslaved persons. Cols (all except slave and free colored counts represent whites) (Copy in Dothan Public Library) Chas Parker, a slave to Rev. 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,359 farms of 500-999 acres. Thanks to Rootsweb for In 1845, Hardy Clemens was a wealthy plantation and slave owner who owned a farm near Coaling, Alabamaon the banks of Big Sandy Creek, about 12 miles east of Tuscaloosa. Entire state . 29, 1892 Allen Parker MonroeJan. 7, 1910 John Dell MontgomeryOct. The term "County" is Social pressure was brought to bear on planters who failed to discharge this part of a slave-owners responsibility. 21, 1878 Daniel McBride LimestoneJune 15, 1879 Dave Benson St. ClairDec. They hold records that are available in the public domain, but may be hard to find, hence they offer a convenient way to research. 26, 1889 Bud Wilson TuscaloosaMarch 21, 1890 Robert Mosley MadisonMarch 29, 1890 Frank Griffin ChiltonJune 7, 1890 Unnamed man ShelbyJuly 23, 1890 Tobe Williams BlountSept. The president of Georgetown University announced on Thursday that he would enact a series of measures to acknowledge and make amends for the schools history with slavery including offering preferential consideration during the admissions process to descendants of the slaves the school once sold. slaves owned by purchasers of land from the public domain was 16. 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The 1850 slave schedule was used in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. by a total of 1,045 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. B etween 1936 and 1938 . . Alabama Slavery-Related News Articles. 3. Anderson Baptist Church Cemetery Find a Grave Garden and Gun Land property listing online, [photo] Old Spring Hill Plantation, Barbour County, Alabama. 16, 1890 Henry Smith JeffersonMarch 24, 1891 John Dances ShelbyMarch 28, 1891 Elrod Hudson FranklinMarch 28, 1891 Jeff Denzmore (Dinsmore) FranklinMarch 31, 1891 Zachariah Graham MobileMay 2, 1891 Monroe Watters LamarMay 29, 1891 Jeff Thomas WalkerJuly 18, 1891 Mack Brown BlountJuly 26, 1891 Jesse Underwood ColbertAug. The Negro was free, but he was helpless by his want of habits of self-reliance, helpless by his want of experience, and doubly helpless by his want of comprehension to understand and appreciate his condition. Southern people, who had knew the Negro as slave for so long, were the only people in the world who understood him. 7, 1888 Seven unnamed men HenryJan. 1, 1891 William Williams HenryAug. 13, 1909 John Holly SumterNov. census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published All rights reserved (About Us). 22, 1907 Moses Dossett MobileNov. The museum and memorial is believed to be the nation's first site to document racial inequality from slavery through the Jim Crow era and into the present. Their stories include the inhumanity of their conditions: children having to eat out of troughs, and field slaves being herded into pens like cattle. Jim was about eighty years old and had been lying on his oars for twelve years. Sylvia had done nothing but eat, drink, and smoke for sixteen years. States that saw significant increases in colored 16, 1894 Abram Seddon ChiltonFeb. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. If life was so awful here, most of them would have left but they didnt after the war. This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture former owner in 1870, vary widely and from region to region. 27, 1889 John Sleet JeffersonDec. The ordeal through which the Southern people passed during the process of Reconstruction was, he said, indeed severe. 4, 1895 Toby McGrady BullockOct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._W._Comer, http://www.gardenandgunland.com/land/old-spring-hill-plantation/388. involving all obtainable records of the holder. Agnes, about seventy-five years old, had not worked for thirty years. (Source: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers ' Project, 1936 - 1938: Library of Congress Web site). 9, 1893 John Booker Davis HenryDec. Thanks to Rootsweb for providing space for this site. 1, 1889 Unnamed man ShelbySept. Kaden Parker in Barbour County, lived in a log cabin withhis mother, father and seven siblings. My master was so cruel to his slaves that they were almost crazy at times, Russell continued. Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. It is possible to locate a free person on the Barbour County, Alabama Where did freed Alabama slaves go if they did not stay in Alabama? 21, 1891 Ray Porter ChiltonSept. Southern History Series: Podcast: Damn Yankees! 17, 1892 Harry Hinton ChoctawFeb. On this census, Elijah is listed as 54 years of age, which would indicate that he was born circa 1816. If you have Alabama files you'd 13, 1893 Monroe Smith MarengoAugust 1893 Joe Floyd PickensSept. 14, 1893 Ed Guyton PickensSept. Managers. Freed 15, 1920 Jack Waters CovingtonMarch 11, 1920 Wilbur Smith MontgomeryJuly 30, 1920 Juster Jennings DaleJuly 30, 1920 Sills Spinks DaleAug. Alabama Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 (selections) Ancestry Alabama cemetery records Family History Library . When you read the report, its because they were fed the same thing the masters family was fed.. AL Genweb: General Alabama genealogical information. Send comments about this page to: The USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File Manager. 26, 1890 Jim Tate BibbNov. The rest of the slaves in the County were held 21, 1884 Short HaleOct. Box 5616 Montgomery, AL 36103-5616; Phone: (334) 242-7200; Fax: (334) 242-4993 such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves nationwide. Following the patenting of the cotton gin (in 1793), the War of 1812, and the defeat and expulsion of the Creek Nation in the 1810s, European-American settlement in Alabama was intensified, as was the presence of slavery on newly established plantations in the territory. Slaves were in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. 2, 1900 Wallace Townsend ElmoreDec. But the ex-slaves nevertheless chose to remain. 4, 1906 Jim Cotton BarbourFeb. 1 BYU Family History Archives . CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Linking When you click through real estate links on our site, we earn an affiliate commission. 6, 1906 William Thompson MobileJan. Contract labor systems were put into place in southern states that forced freed blacks to work in jobs that they could not legally quit, left them permanently in debt, and which often involved violent physical punishment by white property owners. Negro slave owners were listed in 29 Kentucky counties (see below). 2, 1901 Charley Bend St. ClairAug. . Barbour County, Alabama Federal Census Index ; Year: Roll: ED's: Images: Transcription Status: Transcriber: 1840: M704-1 : 1850: M432-1 : 1850 Slave: M432-17 : 1860 Of the 11 Alabamians included in the collection, five were women and six were men. An 16, 1925 Grant Cole MontgomeryApril 25, 1926 Lillie Cobb BlountOct. He came back the following autumn, moved back into his old cabin, and there remained until he was an old man. Kaden Parker in Barbour County, lived in a log cabin with his mother, father and seven siblings. Send cash, checks or money orders to our P.O. Sometimes when the narratives are truly graphic in nature, I cant help but sit and cry. All images used 3, 1910 Bush Withers CovingtonOct. Booth, Etta - Barbour County Bowen, Jennie - Mobile Bradfield, Nannie - Uniontown Bradley, Martha - Montgomery Brown, Allen - Barbour County Brown, Gus . SOURCES. 9, 1896 Joseph Leeds St. ClairFeb. 7, 1893 Jim Wilkins DallasDec. 3, 1901 William Fournay Pike1902 3 22 Ben Zeigler Pike1902 6 21 Wiley Campbell ChoctawNov. Barbour County, accounting for 6,860 slaves, or 42% of the County total. Barbour Co. 1860 Federal Census - Mortality Schedule Archived Copy; Original page no longer online. 20, 1899 Son of Peter Louin ElmoreNov. 12, 1918 George Whiteside ColbertJune 6, 1919 James E. Lewis MobileJune 18, 1919 Jim McMillan BibbAug. 1, 1899 Andrew Sloss LawrenceFebruary 28 (? 8) of Perry County. This is straight from the horses mouth though. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. Barbour County Courthouse 1 Court Square PO Box 219 Clayton, Al 36016 Phone: 334-775-8366 Fax: 334-775-1125 Barbour County District Court 303 E Broad St Eufaula, AL 36027 Phone 334-687-1516 Barbour County Website Judge of Probate has marriage probate and land records from 1800's. African American descendants of persons who were enslaved in Barbour County, Alabama in 1860, if they have an idea of To remedy the evils growing out of abolition, Clayton urged that the people of the South secure the services of the negroes, teach them their places, and how to keep them, and convince them at last that we are indeed their best friends. None should hold a grudge against the Negro because he was now free, Clayton added: He is proud to call you master yet. 10, 1900 Zeb Floyd ElmoreOct. I thought I would share it. 23, 1909 Richard Robertson MobileJan. 10, 1918 William Bird ColbertNov. Slavery, however, existed in every county. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material Slaves 100 years of age or older were supposed to be named on the 1860 slave schedule, but there were only 1,570 slaves of 22, 1935 Jim P. Meriwether LowndesFeb. Flagship GIS, Inc. - Security Notification (March 9, 2022) 21, 1885 George Ward BarbourDec. Researchers should start with their most recent ancestor using AccessGenealogy's Census Records main census records area, as the census taken after the civil war (1870 onwards) enumerated all blacks as they did whites. Division, and those over 150 in the Western Division. Browser, which is a very detailed, searchable and highly recommended database that can found at document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. Before presuming an African American was a slave on the 1860 census, 10, 1922 Wm. and C.L.D. slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a slaveholder. FORMAT. Proctor, an African-American woman, said she tried to keep her emotions out of the tedious archival process but she was sometimes floored by the vivid descriptions of punishment in particular. 8, 1877 Mark Woodford ClarkeApril 17, 1878 Ben Evans MadisonApril 17, 1878 Ephraim Hall MadisonSept. Click through to donate to us through our cashtag $occdissident15. More: Alabama history tour covers Civil War, cotton - not slaves, Slaves that belonged to ministers recalled having better lives than most. 28, 1897 James Jackson BibbMarch 15, 1897 Andy Beard PickensMarch 18, 1897 John Smith JacksonMay 11, 1897 Amanda Franks MadisonMay 11, 1897 Mollie Smith MadisonMay 30, 1897 John Hayden LamarJune 21, 1897 George Bradley MonroeJuly 3, 1897 Jim Thomas JeffersonJuly 17, 1897 Edmonson LauderdaleJuly 19, 1897 George Richardson TallapoosaJuly 19, 1897 James Daniel CoosaAug. Information that can be found in these records includes surname, death date, county, race, sex, cause of death, location of death, and death date. Barbour County, Alabama Description of the Collection This small collection comprises a journal kept by Comer, 1844-1847, containing various kinds of records relating to agricultural activities on his Barbour County, Alabama, plantation and to his lumber and corn mills. 8, 1920 Monroe Wood HenryOct. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. Barbour County Genealogy Group, Eufaula Carnegie Library, 217 N. Eufaula Ave., Eufaula, AL 36027. She was able to get married and eat bacon, vegetables and sorghum syrup cake, but she also saw field slaves worked to death, an outcome she said her owner preferred to trying to improve a slaves health. on these pages were obtained from sources permitting free All materials contained on 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. The largest numbers of slaves were held in bondage in counties located in either the Tennessee River Valley or the Black Belt region. 20, 1904 Ed Avery WalkerSept. Comer] 1860: 61 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, C.L. Comer and the White League redeemed Barbour County in the Election Riot of 1874. 14, 1893 William Archer PickensSept. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Created / Published between 1936 and 1938 Headings - United States -- Alabama - Photographs Genre Photographs Medium 1 photographic print Call Number/Physical Location WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A917, vol. The ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama. In 1999, Southern University archivist Angela Proctor began the painstaking task of reading, scanning and transcribing 228 handwritten interviews. Alabama Slave Owners. Clayton was a Major General in the Army of Tennessee and also fought at the Battle of Stones River, Chickamauga and the Battle of Atlanta. Since the collection was released online, Proctor said the response has been overwhelmingly positive, despite a few negative comments. 2 BYU Family History Archives . population during that time, and were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Barbour Do not promote, suggest, glorify or incite violence in the comment section. 6, 1893 Benjamin Minter DallasDec. 30, 1896 Robert Allison MonroeOct. Many wills contained information about slaves. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County near Eufaula. 1870, the Alabama colored population increased by 37,000, to 475,000, a 17% increase. The study found 3,777 Negro slave owners in the United States. It was still hard to take myself out of it. 14, 1893 Ellen Fant PickensSept. I was born in Alabama in 1846 and had a hard time all through slavery as my mother was sold away from me. Category: Barbour County, Alabama, Slavery. Comer; Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1911) son of J.F. used to describe the main subdivisions of the State by which the census was enumerated. The narratives offer rare first-person insight into one of the cruelest institutions in American history. project of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery legal advocacy group. 13, 1897 John Bonner LamarDec. Originally Benton County Located at USGenWeb Archives: Calhoun Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Chambers Co. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. The product of the plantation satisfied all their wants, so far as the inner man was concerned, and the sale of the cotton crop gave them . Pauline . P.O. Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry -. The last letter in this file, written . slaveholder. 2, 1937 Wes Johnson HenryJune 21, 1940 Jesse Thornton CrenshawAug. Comer, slave owner, mine operator, planter;Carrie Gertrude Seay Comer wife of J.W. In 2017, I never expected some of the comments I saw. The national memorial aims to teach about America's past in hope of promoting understanding and healing. "Indian Slavery in Colonial Georgia. 16, 1920 Pete Zeigler AutaugaJuly 28, 1921 Jordan ChoctawJan. 24, 1900 Unnamed man HenryDec. The memorial lists the names of 4,400 lynchings of black people in 800 U.S. counties from 1877 through 1950. Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project, The Just like the other sacrosanct myth the anti-white force trot out daily in the holohoax. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. 21, 1893 Richard Mays St. ClairMarch 15, 1893 Tom Brunnon PikeJune 22, 1893 Daniel Edwards DallasJune 27, 1893 Ernest Murphy TallapoosaJuly 16, 1893 Unnamed man ShelbyJuly 28, 1893 Lindsay Harper ChiltonAug. He is listed as owner of 30 slaves in the 1855 Macon County slave census. 27, 1885 Alexander Reed ClarkeApril 20, 1886 Unnamed man JeffersonOct. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. RoadSnacks is reader-supported. 20, 1899 Peter Louin ElmoreAug. Required fields are marked *. Manager, The USGenWeb Archive Project - Alabama File Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. 4, 1893 Unnamed man BibbSept. 12, 1911 Iver Peterson BarbourMarch 11, 1911 Jackson Walker PikeApril 2, 1911 Abberdine Johnson BullockJan. 25, 1916 Richard Burton SumterJuly 1, 1916 Sam Meeks PickensJan. 22, 1895 Dick Henderson WashingtonFeb. The perpetrators were rarely prosecuted in most cases. Indexed data and browse are available for the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland . 18, 1893 Riley Gulley WilcoxOct. Box. Associated Surnames: Comer o Number manumitted (freed) in the year preceding June 1. o Age, gender, and color of slave Siney Bonner. From the Collection: The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other materials. submission. Bedford . Alice Campbell [acampbell@nconline.com] . 11, 1906 Bunk Richardson EtowahOct. The interviews were coordinated by former Southern University Dean John B. Cade whom the universitys library is now named for and conducted by students after the slaves were freed following the end of the Civil War in 1865. free websites for researching your Alabama family ancestors : Barbour County, Alabama. Bart Thrasher, outlaw, ca. 2, 1901 Louis McAdams Shelby1901 3 3 Bud Davis Lawrence1901 5 1 Dock Mays DallasMay 1, 1901 Edward Mays DallasMay 1, 1901 Robert Dawson DallasMay 10, 1901 Charles Winston JeffersonMay 30, 1901 Frank Reeves ButlerJune 15, 1901 Joe Harris LimestoneJune 28, 1901 Billie Magruder BarbourJuly 2, 1901 Robert White ElmoreJuly 15, 1901 Alexander Herman LawrenceAug. 13, 1892 Burrill Jones MonroeOct. Comer] ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS Comer family: John . Then whips were used to burst the blisters, Slaters interview reads. Youre talking about my people, Proctor said. Located at Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870. Copyright 1997 - 2006 Included are records of cotton and corn planted, picked, and stored, 4, 1907 Will Scott BullockMarch 24, 1907 Cleveland Harding LauderdaleMarch 25, 1907 Joe Lawrence GenevaAug. Well that was an interesting perspective. The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. The color barrier is not as profound as it was during our time period, Proctor said. 1850 Federal Census Barbour County, Alabama (Source: MyHeritage) ($) Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 Barbour County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Barbour County (Source: FamilySearch) Charles H. Miller was the son of George Oliver Miller, a merchant, former slaveholder, and veteran of the Civil War who migrated from the Carolinas to Alabama with his family as a young man in the 1830s. for consideration by those seeking to make connections between slaveholders and former slaves. - 1.6 Receipt, for sale of a slave by M. A. Williams, dated January 14, 1858, Dallas County, Alabama 1 item, 1 leaf 1.7 Facsimile of the Declaration of the People of Texas to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. Counties, return to Home and Links Page. It wasnt until the 1910s that the exodus became a flood and that was due to the attraction of wartime industries and the final ruin of the Cotton Kingdom at the hands of soil erosion and the boll weevil. 15, 1904 Buck Steward AutaugaDec. ***. Custom Content. Ironaton Alabama (Talladega County) When old age came, most plantation Negroes could count on being pensioned and allowed to live out their lives without working as a part of the plantation family. 14,629 whites, 33 "free colored" and 16,150 slaves. ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the County. 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