29, 1891 John Brown TalladegaJan. census. 7, 1910 John Dell MontgomeryOct. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. Booth, Etta - Barbour County Bowen, Jennie - Mobile Bradfield, Nannie - Uniontown Bradley, Martha - Montgomery Brown, Allen - Barbour County Brown, Gus . He became the president of the University of Alabama after the war. Parkers slaves were called free negroes because they were treated so well., We have a few slaves who say they were treated well, Proctor said. 14, 1892 William Webb DallasMarch 3, 1892 Unnamed man CalhounMay 5, 1892 G. H. Rose ChoctawMay 16, 1892 Berry Roden Talladega May 16, 1892 Jim Roden TalladegaMay 16, 1892 Will Carter TalladegaJuly 4, 1892 Unnamed man WalkerJuly 5, 1892 Edward Prater ClayOct. 1840 Number of 1850 County White Slave Total Families White Slave Totall Bart Thrasher, outlaw, ca. slaveholder in each County. The process of publication of slaveholder names beginning with larger slaveholders will enable naming of the holders The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly Comer, like many Alabama landowners, leased African-American convict labor to continue operations. Census Online - Alabama - 1850. MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Barbour County population included Using plantation names to locate ancestors In the name of humanity, let him do so. 1, 1912 William Smith JeffersonNov. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. Many black laborers refused to continue working the plantations, and chose to migrate to southern urban areas in large numbers.[13][15]. The memorial lists the names of 4,400. 22, 1895 Dick Henderson WashingtonFeb. 13, 1892 Jim Packer MonroeOct. Alabama, Alt-South, American South, Culture, Dixie, History, Identity, Negroes, Race Relations, Slavery, southern heritage, Southern History Series, White Supremacy Since the U.S. government was not in effective control of many of these territories until later in the war, many of these slaves proclaimed to be free by the Emancipation Proclamation were still held in servitude until those areas came back under Union control. "Cose I was borned a slave, but I don't 'member much 'bout hit, 'caze I was li'l. Dere is one t'ing I . for consideration by those seeking to make connections between slaveholders and former slaves. 2, 1907 Frank Lucas WashingtonNov. 1870, the Alabama colored population increased by 37,000, to 475,000, a 17% increase. 1, 1910 Unnamed man CalhounOct. 2023 Advance Local Media LLC. . Alabama QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau 1870 - 1903 1830 Autauga County Alabama Census Autauga County Alabama Census Index Blount County Alabama Census Division, and those over 150 in the Western Division. 4, 1912 Sam Verge SumterAug. This is straight from the horses mouth though. Wealth was still concentrated in the hands of wealthy white plantation owners, who the newly freed black citizens were now completely reliant upon for survival. Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project, The free websites for researching your Alabama family ancestors : Barbour County, Alabama. by a total of 1,045 slaveholders, and those slaveholders have not been included here. He goes on tell of four old pensioners on a plantation he visited in Alabama. Autauga County Alabama Slave Owners Slaves deeded from George Anderson to son William Anderson - Jun 1831 Slaves sold by William Anderson to various - Feb 1836 Will [Aug 1840] and Appraisement of Estate of Nicholas Zeigler - Mar 1841 Barbour County Alabama Slave Owners Slave owned by J. R. Upshaw in the records of Liberty Baptist Church - Sep . John Wallace Comer was injured during the Battle of Atlanta and was rescued from the battlefield by his loyal slave Burrell. The 1860 U.S. Census Slave Schedules for Barbour County, Alabama (NARA microfilm series M653, Roll 4, 1906 Jim Cotton BarbourFeb. Page 17 the work contentedly and happy. Census data on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage Historical Notes: none Bedford . 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It's scheduled to open on Thursday. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed Custom Content. This page has been accessed 362 times. A permanent wound: How the slave tax warped Alabama finances, Alabama history tour covers Civil War, cotton - not slaves, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Subscribe to this website and receive notification each time a free genealogy resource is newly published. Parkerlater escaped. 23, 1909 Richard Robertson MobileJan. 2, 1907 Abe Sumrall WashingtonNov. In the South the slaves are taken care of for past services, observed a New York newspaper writer in 1860. 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. Plantation names were not shown on the census. Parker's slaves "were. According to a statement sent to BuzzFeed News, Georgetown University president John DeGioia will make a formal announcement of his plans later Thursday. 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. in comparing census data for 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county 28, 1912 John Chandler JeffersonJune 19, 1912 Tom Jackson ClarkeAug. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and they would have been counted as a separate Many wills contained information about slaves. 22, 1935 Jim P. Meriwether LowndesFeb. Ive shared the Comer story here before, but I was reminded of it this afternoon when I came across another story about the end of slavery on Henry D. Claytons plantation in Barbour County. 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. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners]] . demonstrates the importance of the local story in Alabama economics and politics. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. On Sunday we would pray to God to fix some way for us to be freed from our mean masters.. 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. Some of The ordeal through which the Southern people passed during the process of Reconstruction was, he said, indeed severe. 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. AL Genweb: General Alabama genealogical information. 29, 1919 Miles Phifer MontgomerySept. SOURCES. 1, 1891 William Williams HenryAug. it is beyond the scope of this transcription. 5, 1910 Sylvester Peyton MonroeFeb. INCLUDING ALL COURTS, 2, 1919 Archie Robinson ClarkeAug. 1 Source Collection Do not promote, suggest, glorify or incite violence in the comment section. If you dont have anything of value to add to the comments, it wont be posted at all. 24, 1898 John Anderson ChambersNov. SURNAME MATCHES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS: (exact surname spellings only are reported, no spelling variations or soundex), (SURNAME, # in US, in State, in County, born in State, born and living in State, born in State and living in County), WILLIAMS, 28865, 2335, 102, 2095, 1417, 51. 15, 1904 Buck Steward AutaugaDec. checked also. can be difficult because the name of a plantation may have been changed through the years and because the sizeable number Visit our Tourism Page Relocation Services Download a Visitors Guide It was a miserable time and Im glad you didnt have to go through it. 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. 6, 1906 Corneilius Robinson MobileOct. these pages are furnished for the free use of those engaged 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. 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.