African American Resources for Missouri

United States Missouri  African American Resources for Missouri

Online Resources

 * African-American Genealogy State Historical Society of Missouri
 * Missouri Newspaper Index
 * Missouri Death Certificates 1910-1958
 * Black Archives of Mid-America

Family History Library

 * Blattner, Teresa, People of Color : Black Genealogical Records and Abstracts from Missouri Sources" (Bowie, Maryland : Heritage Books, c1993,c 1998) ;


 * Brown, William Wells, Narrative of william W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave (NY, NY : Johnson Reprint, 1970) ;


 * Eddlemon, Sherida K. and Marlene A. Towle, Missouri Genealogical Records and Abstracts (Bowie, Maryland : Heritage Books, c1990-2001) ;


 * Mallory, Rudena Kramer, Claims by Missourians for compensation of enlisted slaves : records of the U.S. District Court of Kansas, Slave Compensation Records, November 3, 1866 to February 21, 1867, Record Group 21, National Archives-Central Plains Region, Kansas City, Missouri (SLC, Utah:Genealogical Society of Utah, 1992)


 * Lee, George R., Slavery North of St. Louis (Canton, Missouri : Lewis County Historical Society, Missouri, [200?]) ;


 * State Slavery Statues (Bethesda, Maryland : University Publications of America, c1989)


 * United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands and Washington Reginald, Records of the field offices for the state of Missouri, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1972 : NARA, RG 105, M1908 (College Park, MD : NARA, 2004)

Other Books

 * McLaurin, Melton Alonza, Celia, A Slave (Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1991). Discusses the trial in 1855 of eighteen-year-old slave Celia for the murder of her abusive master Robert Newsom in Callaway County, Missouri.

Slave owners

 * James Cox: This was posted on the Missouri Genealogy Research Community on Facebook: Record of a slave girl named Malinda, born about 1824 and was hired out to work for W S Pollard and C Bustes (sp) during 1860. Her owner, James Cox, had died in 1858 in Kingston Twp, Caldwell, Mo. See post.