African American Resources for Georgia

United States Georgia  African Americans

Pre-1870 Resources

 * Martin, Joann and African-American Family History Association (Atlanta, Georgia), Slave Bills of Sale Project (Atlanta, Georgia;: African-American Family History Association, 1986) ; Digital version available through FamilySearch Catalog entry.


 * Contents: Vol. 1. sect. 1. Atlanta, Augusta, Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bryan -- v. 1. sect. 2. Burke -- v. 1. sect. 3. Campbell, Carroll, Cass, Chatham, Chattahoochee, Clarke, Cobb, Columbia, Columbus, Covington, Coweta, Dekalb, Dooly, Early, Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hancock, Henry, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Jones, LaGrange, Liberty, Lincoln, Lowndes, Lumkin -- v. 2. sect. 1. Macon, Madison, Marion, McIntosh, Meriwether, Milledgeville, Monroe, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Oglethorpe, Perry, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Richmond, Savannah, Spartanburg, Stewart, Sumter, Telfair, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Walton, Washington, Whitfield, Wilkes -- v. 2. sect. 2. Unidentified counties -- v. 2. sect. 3. Freedmen and contractors. and contractors.


 * Cotner, Neal N. Extractions of Slaves' Names from Select Georgia and Alabama Wills (SLC, Utah, 1992) Extractions of slaves' names from wills of seven Traylor families of Troup, Jasper, and Upson counties, Georgia; and Lowndes and Dallas counties, Alabama. Wills dated from 1817 to 1860. 46 slaves listed.


 * United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Records of the assistant commissioner for the state of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869:NARA, RG105, M798 (Washington D.C.:NARA, 1968)


 * "On the 36 rolls of this microfilm publication are reproduced the records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Georgia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-69. A few papers are dated as early as 1862. The records consist of 34 volumes of communications sent, registers, and orders issued; and of unbound letters and reports received and miscellaneous papers. The documents were created or received by the Assistant Commissioner ...The records are part of Record Group 105, Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. ...The editorial material for this publication was prepared by Elaine Everly." -- P. 1, 8. The library has bound numbers 791-800 together. Some numbers are missing.


 * For more resources available at the Family History Library see

1870-1900 Resources

 * Stewart, Roma Jones, Africans in Georgia, 1870 (Chicago, Illinois:Homeland, c1993)

Books

 * Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition Volume 1
 * Caldwell, Arthur Bunyan, History of the American Negro and His Institutions, Georgia Edition, Volume 2
 * The Black Side: a partial history of the business, religious, and educational side of the Negro in Atlanta, Ga. / by Edward R. Carter. - Atlanta:[s.n.], 1894/ - ix, 323 p.Micro 28148 F LC copy replaced by microfilm.
 * Homecoming: African-American Family History in Georgia / Carole Merritt. - [Atlanta]: African-American Family History Association, c 1982. - 122 p. E185.93G4 M47 1982
 * Distinguished Negro Georgians. - Dallas: Royal Pub. Co., [1961]. - 203 p. E185.93 G4 T7
 * Profiles of Black Georgia Baptists: two hundred ans six years of Black Georgia Baptist History, one hundred years of national Baptist history as told by Clarence M. Wagner. - Gainesville, GA.: Wagner, c 1980. - 268 p. BX6444.G4 W33
 * Mohr, Clarence L. On the Threshold of Freedom: Masters and Slaves in Civil War Georgia. Athens: University of Georiga Press, 1986.

Online Resources

 * Civil Rights Digital Library
 * Papers of the American Slave Trade: part 1, Port of Savannah Slave Manifests, 1790-1860
 * Access Genealogy: Georgia African American Genealogy
 * State online resources for African-American genealogy: Georgia (African American Genealogy Examiner)
 * Georgia's Virtual Vault
 * Lowcountry Africana (Twitter: LCAfricana) is dedicated to documenting the family and cultural heritage of African Americans in the historic rice-growing areas of South Carolina, Georgia and extreme northeastern Florida.
 * Lists of slaves can be found in the online Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1975.
 * Lists of slaves can be found in the online Georgia, Probate Records, 1742-1975.