Confederate Slave Payrolls - National Archives Catalog

This article describes Images of selected Confederate Slave Payrolls, 1874-1899 NAID 719477 consisting of 5,971 file units from Record Group 109 War Department Collection of Confederate Records. The collection consists of payrolls for enslaved 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 enslaved 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. Index to Confederate Slave Rolls and Payrolls, 1874-1899 NAID 719476.


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 *  National Archives News 
 * "Confederate Slave Payrolls Shed Light on Lives of 19th Century African American Families"
 *  Related Collections
 * RG 109 Register of Slaves Impressed, 1864-1865 NAID 7970737 Digital Images
 * RG 109 Payroll of Slaves Employed at the Confederate States Armory at Macon, Georgia NAID 4656248
 * RG 109 Chapter V, Volume 135 - Quartermaster Department - Record of Slaves Hired, 1864-1865 NAID 166048405
 * RG 109 Chapter V, Volume 129 - Quartermaster Department - Record of Clothing Issued Slaves, 1863 NAID 178452461
 * RG 110 Provost Marshal General's Bureau. Reports of the Enrollment of Slaves in the First District of West Virginia, March 1864–March 1864 NAID 4483090


 *  For Further Reading
 * Claire Prechtel Kluskens.  Civil War Confederate Slave Payroll Records NGS Magazine 45 #2 (April-June, 2019): 61-64.
 * Jamie Amanda Martinez, Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.


 * Related Wiki Articles
 * African American Slavery and Bondage
 * African American Resources for Virginia


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 * Virginia, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872