Confederate Slave Payrolls - National Archives Catalog

Images of selected Confederate Slave Payrolls, 1861-1865 NAID 719477 consisting of 5,971 file units from Record Group 109 War Department Collection of Confederate Records. The collection consists of payrolls for slave labor on Confederate military defenses during the Civil War. The payrolls were created by the Confederate Quartermaster Department. Most payrolls are for the state of Virginia. The records will include the slave name, place worked and the slave owner's name. Some of the payrolls have been transcribed (see the Scope & Content section).An index to the collection is available at the National Archives NAID 719476.


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 *  National Archives News 
 * "Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th Century African American Families."


 *  For Further Reading
 * Claire Prechtel Kluskens.  Civil War Confederate Slave Payroll Records NGS Magazine 45 #2 (April-June, 2019): 61-64.


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 * African American Slavery and Bondage
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