Slave Index of Richmond County, Georgia Court Records
Slave Index of Richmond County, Georgia Court Records

Author: Augusta Genealogical Society

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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. This index will consist of abstracts of the information on the over 21,000 slaves that were mentioned in the Richmond County Superior Court Slave Importation Affidavit Register ledger books from 1818 to 1854. By law, Owners of slaves were required to register their slaves with the Superior Court. Augusta Genealogical Society has indexed all slaves mentioned on the Register forms in in the Richmond County ledger books. The index includes the slave's name, the owner's name, the date, and the ledger book/page number where the information appears in the original volume. In this book, the records are arranged alphabetically first by the owner's surname, then first name. The enslaved persons listed on each affidavit are grouped together and presented alphabetically by name of the enslaved person. In the back of the book, there is a cross-index alphabetical listing of agents, guardians, executors and trustees mentioned in the book.

Slave Index of Richmond County, Georgia Court Records
Slave Index of Richmond County, Georgia Court Records

Author: Augusta Genealogical Society

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 724

ISBN-13: 9780578320885

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This index abstracts information mentioning enslaved persons found in the Richmond County books of estate, guardian, and trust accounts. This includes the Year's Support, Inventory & Appraisement, Account Sales books through Book I. The original records are reports to the court of how the assets were dispersed. In many instances, the assets were distributed to heirs of the deceased and their names are included in the reports to the courts. The index includes the slaves name, the name of the deceased owner whose estate is being settled, the name of the new owner, the date, the value of the slave, and the book/page number from which the information was abstracted.In this book, the records are arranged alphabetically by the name of the enslaved person. In addition, all the slaves' records with the same name are organized alphabetically by the owner's surname. In the back of the book, there is an owner's name cross-index where records may be accessed alphabetically by the owner's name.

Red Book
Red Book

Author: Alice Eichholz

Publisher: Ancestry Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13: 9781593311667

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" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.

Slave Against Slave
Slave Against Slave

Author: Jeff Forret

Publisher: LSU Press

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 0807161128

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In the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity. Though existing scholarship shows that intraracial black violence did not reach high levels until after Reconstruction, contemporary records bear witness to its regular presence among enslaved populations. Slave against Slave explores the roots of and motivations for such violence and the ways in which slaves, masters, churches, and civil and criminal laws worked to hold it in check. Far from focusing on violence alone, Forret’s work also adds depth to our understanding of morality among the enslaved, revealing how slaves sought to prevent violence and punish those who engaged in it. Forret mines a vast array of slave narratives, slaveholders’ journals, travelers’ accounts, and church and court records from across the South to approximate the prevalence of slave-against-slave violence prior to the Civil War. A diverse range of motives for these conflicts emerges, from tensions over status differences, to disagreements originating at work and in private, to discord relating to the slave economy and the web of debts that slaves owed one another, to courtship rivalries, marital disputes, and adulterous affairs. Forret also uncovers the role of explicitly gendered violence in bondpeople’s constructions of masculinity and femininity, suggesting a system of honor among slaves that would have been familiar to southern white men and women, had they cared to acknowledge it. Though many generations of scholars have examined violence in the South as perpetrated by and against whites, the internal clashes within the slave quarters have remained largely unexplored. Forret’s analysis of intraracial slave conflicts in the Old South examines narratives of violence in slave communities, opening a new line of inquiry into the study of American slavery.

The Source
The Source

Author: Loretto Dennis Szucs

Publisher: Ancestry Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 1000

ISBN-13: 9781593312770

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Genealogists and other historical researchers have valued the first two editions of this work, often referred to as the genealogist's bible."" The new edition continues that tradition. Intended as a handbook and a guide to selecting, locating, and using appropriate primary and secondary resources, The Source also functions as an instructional tool for novice genealogists and a refresher course for experienced researchers. More than 30 experts in this field--genealogists, historians, librarians, and archivists--prepared the 20 signed chapters, which are well written, easy to read, and include many helpful hints for getting the most out of whatever information is acquired. Each chapter ends with an extensive bibliography and is further enriched by tables, black-and-white illustrations, and examples of documents. Eight appendixes include the expected contact information for groups and institutions that persons studying genealogy and history need to find. ""

Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery

Author: Henry Goings

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0813932386

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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.