Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. commercial enterprise and information found boundaries. All images used population during that time, and were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Barbour Alabama cemetery records, Vol. When the Civil War reached Alabama, he buried about $100,000 in gold somewhere on his property. Alabama Slave Project - ALGenWeb Appraisement and Inventory of Slaves in Wills, Macon County AL Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society P. O. Ive shared the Comer story here before, but I was reminded of it this afternoon when I came across another story about the end of slavery on Henry D. Claytons plantation in Barbour County. Comer, like many Alabama landowners, leased African-American convict labor to continue operations. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information 1850 Slave Schedules Pike County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) 1860 Slave Schedules (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) Pike County (Source: Sankofagen Wiki) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Pike County (Source: FamilySearch) Estate Records Page 17 the work contentedly and happy. The memorial lists the names of 4,400. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Alabama, Slave Owners]] . Narrative of Oneda Lackow - Underground Railroad Fugitive. Census data for 1860 was obtained from the Historical United States Census Data Barbour Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Benton Co. . 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Autauga County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Baldwin County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 6, 0), Benton County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bibb County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 4), Blount County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Bullock County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Butler County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Calhoun County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Chambers County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 29, 5), Cherokee County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Choctaw County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 4), Clarke County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 10, 1), Coffee County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Colbert County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Conecuh County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 0), Coosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Covington County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Crenshaw County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Dallas County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 1), Fayette County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Franklin County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Greene County, Alabama, Slave Owners (1, 25, 9), Hale County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0), Henry County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Jefferson County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 1), Lauderdale County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 9, 0), Lawrence County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 15, 1), Limestone County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Lowndes County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 0), Macon County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 7, 4), Madison County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 24, 8), Marengo County, Alabama, Slave Owners (1, 22, 19), Marion County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Marshall County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0), Mobile County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 4, 4), Monroe County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 3), Montgomery County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 11, 1), Morgan County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 10, 1), Perry County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 16, 5), Pickens County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 0), Pike County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), Randolph County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Russell County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 14, 1), Shelby County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 0), St. Clair County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 1), Sumter County, Alabama, Slave Owners (2, 15, 7), Talladega County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 21, 1), Tallapoosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1), Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 11, 3), Washington County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 2, 1), Wilcox County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 0). the same restrictions/permissions. 24, 1933 Dennis Cross TuscaloosaJune 18, 1934 Otis Parham MontgomeryAug. 1, 1896 Isidore Mobley DallasAug. The material covers the period 1805 to 1975, but the bulk . Three years ago, the collection was made public in its entirety, offering raw testimony from the mouths of slaves. In 1850, the slave census was also separate from the free census, but in earlier years it was a part of the free 18, 1887 Monroe Johnson JeffersonNov. electronic publishing on another site without the consent of 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. The color barrier is not as profound as it was during our time period, Proctor said. The USGenWeb Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project. The 1850 slave schedule was used in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. this county, except for 102 year old female Carolina, an African, held by Henry Lockhart and shown on page 102B. 14, 1920 Select Reeves ButlerOct. Alabama Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 (selections) Ancestry Alabama cemetery records Family History Library . 28, 1912 John Chandler JeffersonJune 19, 1912 Tom Jackson ClarkeAug. 4. Alabama Slave Owners. 7, 1893 Jim Wilkins DallasDec. OVERVIEW Location: Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined Associated Surnames: Comer Historical Notes: none Associated Pages: none ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS 1850: 42 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, J.F. Census Online - Alabama - 1850. Booth, Etta - Barbour County Bowen, Jennie - Mobile Bradfield, Nannie - Uniontown Bradley, Martha - Montgomery Brown, Allen - Barbour County Brown, Gus . contact: The 27, 1900 George Fuller PerryJan. CONTENT MAY BE COPYRIGHTED BY WIKITREE COMMUNITY MEMBERS. The average size of household for slaveowners and non-slaveowners was nearly identical, totaling 6.4 and 6.3 respectively. 13, 1909 John Holly SumterNov. 27) reportedly includes a total of 16,150 slaves. It wasnt until the 1910s that the exodus became a flood and that was due to the attraction of wartime industries and the final ruin of the Cotton Kingdom at the hands of soil erosion and the boll weevil. 6, 1893 Benjamin Minter DallasDec. 23, 1886 John Davis BibbJune 2, 1887 Unnamed man BibbAug. Alabama was admitted as the 22nd state on December 14, 1819. Linking Alabama Vital Records P.O. I didnt like slavery once I found what freedom was.. Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed Historic Chattahoochee Commission, Box 33, Eufaula, AL 36072-0033, Phone 334-687-9755. 1, 1891 Willis Lowe HenryAug. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Created / Published between 1936 and 1938 Headings - United States -- Alabama - Photographs Genre Photographs Medium 1 photographic print Call Number/Physical Location WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A917, vol. Before presuming an African American was a slave on the 1860 census, 1, 1898 John Kellogg CherokeeMarch 20, 1898 John Callow CherokeeMarch 21, 1898 Sam Ellis DallasJune 17, 1898 Ham Thompson ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Louis Spier ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Reese Thompson ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Soloman Jackson ElmoreJuly 13, 1898 Sidney Johnson TuscaloosaJuly 15, 1898 John S. Durrett TuscaloosaAug. Autauga, Baldwin, and Barbour Counties 2. . 13, 1896 John Lee HenrySept. [Report Broken Link] Blount Co. 1860 Federal Census. 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 1846 Chambers County Alabama Slave Owners Comer, Your email address will not be published. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula, Alabama. Indexed data and browse are available for the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland . 8, 1920 Monroe Wood HenryOct. 3, 1922 George Teague CovingtonJuly 1925 Annie May Simmons CrenshawDec. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. Many wills contained information about slaves. 1, 1899 Andrew Sloss LawrenceFebruary 28 (? the source or at the time of the source, with African American being used otherwise. Free Schedules. Perry County, Alabama Register of Slaves Brought into Alabama after 16 Day of Jan 1832. Comer; Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1911) son of J.F. 8, 1893 Joseph Givham DallasDec. 27, 1912 Willis Perkins MarionNov. distribution, or generated by the author, and are subject to WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. Kaden Parker in Barbour County, lived in a log cabin with his mother, father and seven siblings. and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who it is beyond the scope of this transcription. I was so lonesome without her that I would often go about my work and cry and look for her return … but she never came back.. They're also now available to the public. From the Collection: The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other materials. 8, 1877 Mark Woodford ClarkeApril 17, 1878 Ben Evans MadisonApril 17, 1878 Ephraim Hall MadisonSept. Information that can be found in these records includes surname, death date, county, race, sex, cause of death, location of death, and death date. However, the data should be checked for the particular surname to see the extent of the matching. This transcription includes 98 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Barbour County population included Make checks out to Brad Griffin. Some of (Source: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers ' Project, 1936 - 1938: Library of Congress Web site). 11, 1910 Grant Richardson BibbDec. 6, 1906 William Thompson MobileJan. Oliver Bell. 13, 1892 Jim Packer MonroeOct. It is estimated by this transcriber that in 1860, slaveholders of 200 or more slaves, while constituting less than 1 % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the U.S. SOURCES. U.S. Plantation names were not shown on the census. The TABLE 1. Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. Although Clayton deplored the laws granted freedom to Negroes, he said, he believed that all were in honor bound to observe these laws. County, AL. 8, 1894 Samuel Smith ButlerFeb. viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. Alabama Slavery-Related News Articles. [4][5] Within 20 years of becoming a state, Alabama was the largest cotton producer in the US, producing 23% of the nation's cotton crop. I was born in Alabama in 1846 and had a hard time all through slavery as my mother was sold away from me. Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Euf aula. 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