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| Books Authored by Dr Joseph Williams GA Plantations Slave Manumission after 1782 |
| OFF SITE LINKS - You will leave ColumbiaCoGA GAGenWeb USGenWeb site - if a link is broken, please do a google search to find the data - many rootsweb pages have been moved or lost. Send an email letting the webmaster know, so we can remove the link or correct it. Thank you. Afri-Geneas Sitemap Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. - Metro Atlanta Chapter - A rich source of information on African-American Research on Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites - Excellent source of updated and current links to on-line genealogical resources. Digital Library of Georgia - Collection contains legal documents dating from 1831-1863 related to slavery including estate appraisals and inventories, legal orders, and judgments from Georgia; it also includes a tax statement from Virginia. Family Search - On-line searchable databases for African American Resources and data. Free African Americans - in colonial Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland & Deleware. Three books you can read on-line containing about 2,700 pages of over 1,000 family histories based on all colonial court order and minute books on microfilm at the state archives of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Delaware (over 1,000 volumes), tax lists, wills, deeds, free Negro registers, marriage bonds, parish registers, Revolutionary War pension files, etc. There are also another 5,000 pages of abstracted colonial tax lists, Virginia personal property tax lists, etc., under "Colonial Tax Lists. Geeorgia Archives - University System of Georgia - List of records relating to African-American records. Records description has been ongoing since 1918, and headings have changed over time with changing social and professional standards. Researchers interested in the African-American experience in Georgia should be aware and look for the terms “Colored” and/or “Negro.” https://historyhub.history.gov/community/african-american-records">NARA in DC - History Hub for African American Records- Questions and answers about African American records and Black History, including records of enslaved persons, the Freemen's Bureau, Civil Rights, and more. https://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/african-americans.html">National Archives at Atlanta - The research room at the National Archives at Atlanta is open. Research visits are by appointment only. On-line aids for finding African American History Resources http://www.glynngen.com/enslavement/slavelaw.htm">Timeline of Georgia Laws Relating to Slaves - other data is available, specific to Glynn County GA United States African American Griots Wilkes County, Georgia collection, 1778-1867 - The Wilkes County, Georgia collection is made up of probate inventories, estate records, indentures, receipts, accounts, and other documents relating to the inhabitants of Wilkes County, Georgia. The probate inventories provide a wealth of details about the lives of Wilkes County residents, enslaved and free. Inventories can be used to reconstruct some details of slaves' lives. These documents show the number of slaves on plantations with the monetary value assigned to them, often give names of slaves, and indicate if women had children. Sometimes appraisers noted the names of a woman's children. For some decedents, the records of the disposition of estates show the scattering of slaves to various slaveholders as well as the distribution of other property. The "List of the property sold of Lewis Biddles Estate Deceased," has unusual value: It breaks down the slaves sold into family groups (information beyond the more frequent notations of mothers and children). A poignant 1828 estate sale record relates that Old Andrew and Old Amy were "offered & no bidder." The collection includes other material about slaves and slavery, such as records of the hiring out of slaves and a 1784 bond that expressed a preference for a "country born negroe boy." Four court documents from the late 1780s and early 1790s reveal cases of "Negroe Stealing" but with scant detail. Another court document, from 1792, declares that a Capt. John Man "saw a Negro man Ben, said to be the property of Richard Baily on the morning of the 29th June Instant, much wounded, which appeared to be done by shooting." Man testified that one Norcut Slaven had told Man that Slaven "has shot the said Negro Ben." The court took action against Slaven and other men, though the documents do not show the final outcome of the case. The records in this collection can be used to study the economy of Wilkes County. In addition to slaves, inventories list livestock and equipment, such as plows, cotton cards and looms, and blacksmiths' tools -- details that allow scholars to study the extent of plantations' self-sufficiency or participation in the market. |