African American For Further Reading

Resources
For more detailed information on records and research African American ancestors, see:


 * Curt Bryan Witcher, African American Genealogy: a Bibliography and Guide to Sources (Fort Wayne, Ind.: Round Tower Books, 2000). WorldCat entry.
 * James M. Rose, and Alice Eichholz, Black Genesis: a Resource Book for African-American Genealogy, 2nd ed. (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub., 2003).WorldCat entry.
 * Donna Beasley, Family Pride: the Complete Guide to Tracing African-American Genealogy (New York: Macmillan USA, ©1997). WorldCat entry.
 * The Newberry Library, African American Genealogy lists how-to guides, and other sources for African American research.
 * Access Genealogy (aggregator site) South Carolina African American Genealogy dozens of links to Internet sites which may or may not list African Americans in South Carolina. About 1/3 federal census links, about 1/3 national level African American sites.
 * Franklin Carter Smith and Emily Anne Croon. A Genealogis's Guide to Discovering Your African American Ancestors.  WorldCat
 * Dee Parmer Woodtor.  Finding a Place Called Home. A guide to African-American Genealogical and Historical Identity. New York:Random House, 1999. FS Library 973 F2wd
 * Tony Burroughs. Black roots : a beginners guide to tracing the African American family tree.New York, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001. FS Library973 D27bt 2001
 * Tommie Morton Young.Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook.New York, New York : Garland Pub. Co., 1987. FS Library973 F23y

National Archives

 * Heather Glasby.  Testing the 15th Amendment. Milton Claiborne Nichols and the Legacy of the First Black Voters. Prologue. 48 ( Winter, 2016)
 * Paul Finkelman.  The Revolutionary Summer of 1862. how Congress Abolished Slavery and Created a Modern American. Prologue. 49 ( Winter 2017-2018)
 * Joseph P. Reidy.  Slave Emancipation through the Prism of Archives Records. Prologue 29 ( Summer, 1997)
 * Noralee Frankel.  From Slave Women to Free Women: the National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era. Prologue 29 ( Summer, 1997)