South Carolina, Secretary of State, Slave Mortgage Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Slave mortgage records for the state of South Carolina for years 1734 - 1780. More records may be added as they become available. Microfilm of the original records was filmed at the Historical Commission in Columbia, South Carolina.

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Mortgage records, 1734-1860; index, 1709-1840
 * Paula K. Byers, ed. African American genealogical sourcebook New York, New York : Gale Research, c1995 FS Library 973 F27afg
 * compiled by Carey Lucas Nikonchuk ; edited by Matthew A. Lockhart ; with an introduction by W. Eric Emerson, Slave records in the manuscript collection of the South Carolina Historical Society : a catalogCharleston, South Carolina : South Carolina Historical Society, c2005 FS Library 975.7 J53n
 * Paul R. Begley, African American genealogical research S.C. Dept. of Archives and History, Publications Service Area, c1997 Rev. Ed. 975.7 D27b
 * Heather Andrea Williams. Help me to find my people : the African American search for family lost in slavery Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, ©2016 FS Library 973 F2wh

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