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“Records for the white side are always voluminous because they had to file taxes, slave schedules and records of real estate sales and purchases,” Johnson said. "I about passed out.
Slaves were included by gender and estimated age on Slave Schedules, listed by the name of the owner. Prior to 1850, census records had recorded only the name of the head of the household and broad statistical accounting of other household members (three children under age five, one woman between the age of 35 and 40, etc.).
Southern African-American Family on Porch. African American genealogy is a field of genealogy pertaining specifically to the African American population of the United States. . African American genealogists who document the families, family histories, and lineages of African Americans are faced with unique challenges owing to the slave practices of the Antebellum South and North.
According to the 1850 U.S. census, Simmons was probably born around 1815. [1] He began working as a slave trader by 1847, as the E. L. McGlashan Collection of Documents Concerning Slavery in the United States at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale has a receipt for Simmons' purchase of Zena on May 25, 1847, from William Perry at Richmond, [2] and the purchase of an enslaved man ...
As an adult, Freeman farmed using slave labor. In 1850, he and/or his father owned 82 slaves in Jones County, Georgia [ 3 ] and 10 slaves in adjoining Pike County . [ 4 ] By 1860 this James C. Freeman lived near Flat Shoals in Meriwether County, Georgia (adjacent to Pike County) and owned 16 slaves (8 of them noted as fugitives) as well as ...
A. J. Orr in 1850 slave schedule for Bibb County, Georgia D. W. H. Orr in the 1850 United States census, sharing a household with Silas Omohundro and living next door to Hector Davis. in 1850, D. W. Orr was a resident of Richmond, Virginia, where he shared a household with fellow slave trader Silas Omohundro. [15]
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...
Thomas B. Poindexter was an American slave trader and cotton planter. He had the highest net worth, US$350,000 (equivalent to $11,868,889 in 2023), of the 34 active resident slave traders indexed as such in the 1860 New Orleans census, ahead of Jonathan M. Wilson and Bernard Kendig.