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Introduction[edit | edit source]
This Digital Bookshelf is designed to assist you with the unique challenges related to African American genealogy. Here you will find books curated from the FamilySearch library and other digital library platforms that may be of value to your research.
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FamilySearch Digital Access[edit | edit source]
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Separate Tables by Locality[edit | edit source]
United States[edit | edit source]
Alabama[edit | edit source]
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | |
| Slavery in Auburn, Alabama | |
| The large slaveholders of the deep South, 1860 |
Arkansas[edit | edit source]
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| No land -- only slaves | Vol. 6. Extracts of slave deeds. |
| No land -- only slaves | Vol. 18. Extracts of slave deeds. |
California[edit | edit source]
Florida[edit | edit source]
etc...
One Table, Separate URL Column and Catalog Note[edit | edit source]
| States | Title | URL | NOTE |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S | Afro-American encyclopaedia : or, the thoughts, doings, and sayings of the race, embracing addresses, lectures, biographical sketches, sermons, poems, names of universities, colleges, seminaries, newspapers, books, and a history of the denominations, giving | http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/205158 | No index. "Mind and matter, an address delivered by Booker T. Washington ... before the Alabama state teachers' association, Selma, Ala., June 5, 1895": pages 87-101. |
| U.S. | Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE1996786 | Offprint. National Genealogical Society Quarterly, December 2012, p. 293-304. |
| U.S. | History of the American negro and his institutions | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE14597650 | Includes index. Digital images of original published: Atlanta, Georgia : A.B. Caldwell, 1917. v. |
| U.S. | History of the American Negro and his institutions -- | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE215127 | History of the American Negro / edited by A. B. Caldwell. |
| U.S. | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/29628?availability=Family%20History%20Library | Contents: v. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky -- v. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee -- v. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana |
| U.S. | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/417826-redirection | vol 5 |
| U.S. | List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/445493-redirection | |
| U.S. | List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790 | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/59430-redirection | |
| U.S. | Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4109814 | Reprint of edition originally published in 1893 by Donohue and Henneberry of Chicago. |
| U.S. | Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE14597754 | No index. "With special articles by well known authorities, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Charles M. Melden, M.W. Dogan, Albon L. Holsey, and an introduction by Robert R. Moton." |
| U.S. | Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE8437649 | Original title: Record of the services of the Seventh Regiment, U.S. colored troops, from September 1863 to November 1866. |
| U.S. | Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE1073290 | No index. "Of the services and sufferings of the colored soldiers of the Revolution, no attempt has, to our knowledge, been made to preserve a record. They have had no historian. With here and there an exception, they have all passed away, and only some faint tradi |
| U.S. | The Negro soldier : a select compilation | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE8345412 | Bibliography: p. 85-87. |
| U.S. | Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE14597812 | |
| U.S. | Who's who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States | http://www.familysearch.org/library/books/idurl/1/636372 | Includes index. Digital images of original published: Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York : Christian E. Burckel & Associates, 1950. xv, 648 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Alabama | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/411307-redirection | vol 3 |
| Alabama | Slavery in Auburn, Alabama | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE13696814 | |
| Alabama | The large slaveholders of the deep South, 1860 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE7380405 | Bibliography: p. 1218-1219. |
| Arkansas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437074-redirection | vol 18 |
| Arkansas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/542528-redirection | vol 6 |
| California | The Negro trail blazers of California : a compilation of records from the California Archives in the Bancroft Library at the University of California, in Berkeley, and from the diaries, old papers and conversations of old pioneers in the state of Californ | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE94154 | |
| District of Columbia | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/427419-redirection | vol 4 |
| Florida | Florida plantation records from the papers of George Noble Jones | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE8154069 | Includes index. |
| Florida | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/411307-redirection | vol 3 |
| Georgia | Gwinnett County, Georgia book B marriage licenses of free persons of color, 1866-1884 | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/150151-redirection | |
| Georgia | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/411307-redirection | vol 3 |
| Georgia | Names from Georgia, 1865-1866, Freedmens Bureau letters | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE223802 | Contains correspondence relating to crimes, punishments, complaints, appeals for assistance, charges, and investigations. |
| Georgia | Savannah River plantations | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE6215477 | Includes index. |
| Illinois | Gallatin County, Illinois slave register 1815-1839 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE11417928 | Includes given name and full-name indexes. |
| Indiana | Admission record, Indianapolis Asylum for Friendless Colored Children, 1871-1900 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE2525434 | Arranged in alphabetical order by surname of child. |
| Indiana | Enumeration of white & colored males, Henry County, Indiana 1907 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE212252 | Digital images of original published: [SI : s.n., 1907]. 81 p. |
| Indiana | List of aliens who applied for citizenship in Jefferson County, Indiana : list of indentures of apprentices in Jefferson County | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4784744 | Digital images of typescript prepared by the John Paul Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. |
| Indiana | Register of negro slaves and masters for 1805-1807, Knox County, Indiana Territory | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4496197 | |
| Kentucky | African Americans in and around Jefferson County | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/223595-redirection | |
| Kentucky | Afro-American deaths of Boone thru [sic] Boyle County, Kentucky, 1852-18 62 | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/344748-redirection | |
| Kentucky | Biographical sketches of prominent negro men and women of Kentucky : with introductory memoir of the author | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE526860 | Digital images of original published: Lexington, Ky. : [s.n.], 1897 (The Standard Printing). 130 p., [51] p. of plates : ports. ; 22 cm. |
| Kentucky | Civil War African American soldiers from Taylor and Green Counties, Kentucky : in the 5th United States Colored Cavalry and the 107th and 108th Colored Infantry | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE1980176 | no index |
| Kentucky | Colored marriage bonds, Logan County, KY to 1900 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE1987343 | Includes index. |
| Kentucky | Golden jubilee of the general association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky : the story of 50 years' work from 1865-1915 including many photos and sketches, compiled from unpublished manuscripts and other sources | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4524366 | Digital images of original published: Louisville, Kentucky : Mayes, 1915. 304 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., ports. |
| Kentucky | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/486272-redirection | vol 1 |
| Kentucky | Mt. Moriah Cemetery : a history and census of Bowling Green, Kentucky's African-American cemetery | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/288746-mt-moriah-cemetery-a-history-and-census-of-bowling-green-kentucky-s-african-american-cemetery?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= | |
| Kentucky | Weeden's History of the colored people of Louisville | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE4735481 | Digital images of original published: Louisville, Ky. : H.C. Weeden, c1897. 66 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm. |
| Louisiana | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/411307-redirection | vol 3 |
| Louisiana | Louisiana's households of free people of color : residing outside of Orleans Parish & the city of New Orleans in 1810 & 1820 | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/349681-redirection | |
| Louisiana | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/550424-redirection | vol 1 |
| Louisiana | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/781888-redirection | vol 2 |
| Louisiana | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/551835-redirection | vol 3 |
| Louisiana | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/540262-redirection | vol 5 |
| Louisiana | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/548424-redirection | vol 8 |
| Massachusetts | The trial and execution, for petit treason, of Mark and Phillis : slaves of Capt. John Codman, who murdered their master at Charlestown, Mass., in 1755 ; for which the man was hanged and gibbeted, and the woman was burned to death ; including, also, some | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE6860268 | "The following pages are, with slight changes, a reprint from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society."--Prefatory note. |
| Maryland | Maryland slave owners and superintendents | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE108276 | Arranged alphabetically. |
| Missouri | Index, nineteenth century black and associated white persons (a) named in primary records at Clay County Archives & Historical Library, Liberty, Missouri; (b) extracted from U.S. colored volunteer enlistments (Civil War) on file at the National Archives a | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE49857 | Digital images of original published: Kansas City, Missouri : R.K. Mallory, 2007. [151] p. |
| Mississippi | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/411307-redirection | vol 3 |
| North Carolina | Caswell County, North Carolina : land grants, tax lists, state census, apprentice bonds, estate records | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE3190830 | Records cover late 1700's to 1800's. |
| North Carolina | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/434059-redirection | vol 2 |
| North Carolina | Somerset homecoming: recovering a lost heritage | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/502116-somerset-homecoming-recovering-a-lost-heritage?viewer=1&offset=0#page=147&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q= | I found this one, for some reason it's not on the spreadsheet already |
| North Carolina | Census of slaves, 1755 | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437117-census-of-slaves-1755?offset=10 | |
| North Carolina | The cradle of freedom : a history of the Negro in Rochester, western New York and Canada | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE7475641 | Digital images of original published: Rochester, New York : Oxford Press, 1941. 164 p. |
| North Carolina | Underground railroad in Tompkins County, (N.Y.) | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE9550415 | Digital images of original published: Ithaca, New York : S.H. Gallwey, 1963. 18 p. |
| Oklahoma | Oklahoma Creek freedman : my roots, 1858-1921 | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/22511-redirection | |
| Oklahoma | The Choctaw freedmen : and the story of Oak Hill Industrial Acadamy, Valliant, McCurtain County , Oklahoma, now called the Alice Lee Elliott Memorial | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE13658026 | Includes index. |
| Pennsylvania | A comparison of negro and white labor in a charcoal iron community | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE13066732 | "Reprinted from Labor History, vol. 10, no. 3, Summer 1969." |
| Rhode Island | An Historical inquiry concerning the attempt to raise a regiment of slaves by Rhode Island, during the war of the revolution | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE11161845 | Digital images of original published: Providence : S.S. Rider, 1880. 86 p. |
| South Carolina | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/434059-redirection | vol 2 |
| Tennessee | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/434059-redirection | vol 2 |
| Tennessee | The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE476993 | Digital images of original published: Austin, Texas : University of Texas, [1922?]. 213 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Texas | Beaumont colored schools, 1880-1926 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE926419 | Digital images of original published: Beaumont, Texas : American Printing Co., [1926?]. 31 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Texas | History of Negroes of Limestone County | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE1041838 | No index. Digital images of original published: Mexia, Texas : J. A. Chatman and S. M. Merriwether, 1939. 64 p.: ill., ports. |
| Texas | Names and dates from grave markers in Evergreen Negro Cemetery, Houston, Texas : Eagle Scout Project | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/417728-redirection | |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE7616400 | Contents: v. 1. Bossier Parish, Louisiana -- v. 2. Claiborne Parish, Louisiana -- v. 3. Caddo Parish, Louisiana -- v. 4. Harrison, Hunt & Kaufman County, Texas -- v. 5. DeSoto Parish, Louisiana -- v. 6. Lafayette County, Arkansas -- v. 7. Panola & Grayson |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/562295-redirection | vol 10 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/565290-redirection | vol 11 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/562869-redirection | vol 12 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/557972-redirection | vol 13 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/552583-redirection | vol 14 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/558189-redirection | vol 15 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/448063-redirection | vol 16 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/443831-redirection | vol 17 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/437074-redirection | vol 19 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/560408-redirection | vol 4 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/552962-redirection | vol 7 |
| Texas | No land -- only slaves | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/781889-redirection | vol 9 |
| Utah | The story of the Negro pioneer | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE1026200 | |
| Virginia | History of the colored volunteer infantry of Virginia 1871-99 | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE3660222 | Digital images of original published: [Richmond : Virginia Historical Society, 1923]. 102 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Virginia | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/486272-redirection | vol 1 |
| Virginia | Registrations of free negroes commencing September court 1822, book no. 2 & register of free blacks 1835, book 3 : being the full text of the two extant volumes, 1822-1861, of registrations of free blacks now in the county courthouse, Fairfax, Virginia | https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE10071516 | Includes index and tables. |
| Virginia | Something to build on : genealogy of African American families of Henry County, Virginia and surrounding area with surnames A-Z | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/776846-redirection | |
| West Virginia | Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/486272-redirection | vol 1 |
| Wyoming | Pack slaves of upper New River, West Virginia, and their families | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/67384-redirection |
