African American Resources for Louisiana

United States Louisiana  African-American Resources for Louisiana

A list of resources for researching African American ancestors who lived in Louisiana.

Archives and Libraries

 * Louisiana State Archives
 * Manuscript Finding Aids Online at Hill Memorial Library at Louisiana State University
 * African American Resource Center at the New Orleans Public Library
 * Noel Memorial Library


 * Perkins, A.E.Who's Who in Colored Louisiana. Baton Rouge, La.: Douglas Loan Co., 1930, Microform of original.


 * Burkett, Randall K., Nancy Hall, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.. eds. Black Biographical Dictionaries. Alexandria, Virginia: Chadwyck-Healy, Inc., 198-

Church Records
Slave and Free People of Color Baptismal Records in the Archives-Archdiocese of New Orleans (1777- 1812)

History
People of Color in Louisiana: Part I Alice Dunbar-Nelson Page 361 of 361-376

Who's Who in Colored Louisiana, 1930. / A. E. Perkins, Editor. - Baton Rouge, La.: Douglas Loan CO., [1930]. - 153p.: ill, plates (1 fold), ports., facsim.E185.94 L6 W5

Newspapers
Newspaper Webindex:The Louisiana Newspaper Project

Time Line
1830 A Louisiana act ordered the deportation within sixty days of any free Negro who had not lived within the state prior to 1825.

Vital Records
Alphabetical Birth Indexes for Orleans Parish 1796-1900 by USGenWeb

Online Communities
Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of ColorA Facebook page providing resources about a community in Natchitoches (northwestern Lousiana)founded during colonial days by a Creole family.

Online Resources

 * Louisiana Death Records 1911-1956
 * Louisiana Free Slave Records,1719-1820. Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. [Database on line] Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820.
 * Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820. 
 * The Large Slaveholder of Louisiana 1860. Joseph Karl Menn. New Orleans: Pelican Publishing Co., 1964.  WorldCat
 * Historic Pathways. Elizabeth Shown Mills. (An online archives of many peer-reviewed articles and papers relating to Louisiana's Creole history, particular Cane River and the Red River Valley.)
 * Louisiana Lineage Legacies
 * Louisiana National Register of Historic Places (Excellent resource with photos and history)
 * Bossier Parish Cemeteries (Find A Grave)
 * Louisiana Digital Archives
 * Freedmen 's Bureau for 1865-1868 in Caddo and Bossier Parishes
 * Louisiana History and Genealogy
 * Louisiana African American Griots
 * Louisiana Archives (USGenWeb)
 * Marriage Records (Caddo and Bossier Parishes)
 * Plantation Records(Caddo and Bossier Parishes)
 * Louisiana Slavery
 * Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1830 - This website provides a searchable database for African-Americans from the Louisiana area.

Oral History
The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History

Reconstruction
Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1868 Milledge L. Bonham, Jr. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review Vol. 5, No. 3 (Dec., 1918) (pp. 366-368) Page Count: 3

Slavery and Freedom

 * Records Relating to Slavery, Free People of Color, and FreedmenNew Orleans Public Library's Louisiana Division &amp; City Archives
 * Bossier Parish, Louisiana 1860 Slaveholder and 1870 African-Americans
 * Index to Slave Emancipation Petitions, 1814-1843Louisiana. Parish Court (Orleans Parish)
 * A Partial Transcription of Inward Slave Manifests Port of New Orleans, Record Group 36, United States Customs Service, Collector of Customs at New Orleans Microfilm Rolls 1-3, 12 of 25 Rolls (1818 to 1860) Housed at the National Archives, Washington D.C.