27, 1893 Mack Segars CrenshawJan. 20, 1884 J. R. Dorsey CherokeeMay 8, 1885 Jordan ColbertMay 9, 1885 Scipio Atchison ChiltonOct. The transcriber did not notice any such slaves named in Ironaton Alabama (Talladega County) (Source: Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers ' Project, 1936 - 1938: Library of Congress Web site). enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. 1, 1912 William Smith JeffersonNov. Those who have found a free ancestor on the 1860 Barbour County, Alabama census can check this list to learn if their or here ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama, The USGenWeb 15, 1920 Jack Waters CovingtonMarch 11, 1920 Wilbur Smith MontgomeryJuly 30, 1920 Juster Jennings DaleJuly 30, 1920 Sills Spinks DaleAug. After the war, Burrell was rewarded with a pension from the State of Alabama. and to the volunteers who sponsor the counties and everyone who Run-Away Slave Articles. 3, 1901 William Fournay Pike1902 3 22 Ben Zeigler Pike1902 6 21 Wiley Campbell ChoctawNov. 21, 1891 Ray Porter ChiltonSept. Barbour and Bath Counties 1335. 4, 1895 Toby McGrady BullockOct. 18, 1915 Herman Deely MadisonJanuary 1915 Dock Hartley ButlerMay 3, 1915 Jesse Hatch ClarkeAug. County, AL. Just like the other sacrosanct myth the anti-white force trot out daily in the holohoax. In 1843 Thomas A. Harrison traveled to Alabama, accompanied by a party of slaves, to purchase property for a plantation. ***. Had the South be victorious or even fought the Union to a draw and truce, the era of slavery would have ended eventually.. Did the South have a plan for the inessential negro labor because of technology? 3, 1910 Unnamed man TalladegaOct. Negro slave owners were listed in 29 Kentucky counties (see below). Shortly after the Civil War, the J.W. Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in rebellion from the United States were free. Lewis, one of them, a little later tried out the new freedom; he wanted to see, he said, what he could do by himself. In the name of humanity, let him do so. It was Henry D. Clayton, owner of this plantation, who made the memorable Charge to the Grand Jury of Pike County, September 9, 1866. Some people were commenting that slavery didnt exist or that the stories were fabricated., After interviewing a former Shelby County slave named Cap Davis, one student wrote that, "When I asked him if he liked slavery he said, 'To tell you is not like feeling it. has donated files to the site. % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the Perry County, Alabama Register of Slaves Brought into Alabama after 16 Day of Jan 1832. If you dont have anything of value to add to the comments, it wont be posted at all. transcription for their own purposes. Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt: Butler, Dallas, Lowndes, Marengo, Perry, and Wilcox Co. Doll's Genealogy Site: focus on Macon Co. Large Slaveholders of 1860: extraction of many slaveholders in various Alabama counties The Village: Alabama Slave Project Division, and those over 150 in the Western Division. 16, 1894 William George ChiltonFeb. The 2 BYU Family History Archives . 7, 1910 John Dell MontgomeryOct. 6, 1909 Will Parker MonroeApril 25, 1909 John Thomas JeffersonSept. SURNAME MATCHES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS: (exact surname spellings only are reported, no spelling variations or soundex), (SURNAME, # in US, in State, in County, born in State, born and living in State, born in State and living in County), WILLIAMS, 28865, 2335, 102, 2095, 1417, 51. 27, 1900 George Fuller PerryJan. On Sunday we would pray to God to fix some way for us to be freed from our mean masters.. [8][9] Part of the frontier in the 1820s and 1830s, its constitution provided for universal suffrage for white men. For (the youth), they get a whole different perspective. They hoed potatoes and tobacco, but Rev. All rights reserved (About Us). Do not use vulgar, hateful, wacky or esoteric language in the comments. 11, 1906 Bunk Richardson EtowahOct. 2, 1901 Charley Bend St. ClairAug. Thousands of Negroes, uneducated, unfitted for anything except to obey and do their duty as directed, were given their freedom and the privilege of citizenship. o Number manumitted (freed) in the year preceding June 1. o Age, gender, and color of slave 1850 Census, Barbour County, Alabama, Box: 4026a, Volume: 3. 1 item, 1 The ordeal through which the Southern people passed during the process of Reconstruction was, he said, indeed severe. 21, 1884 Short HaleOct. 30, 1907 Neal Sanders CovingtonJuly 29, 1908 Lige Nelms JeffersonAug. 24, 1909 Samuel Davenport ColbertFeb. County, included the following: Georgia, up 80,000 to 545,000 (17%); Texas, up 70,000 (38%); North Carolina, up 31,000 73086 Washington DC 20056-3086 In the agricultural industry, this most often took the form of a contract labor system known as sharecropping where black farmers rented land from white landowners and paid with their labor and crops. Barbour County Alabama Public GIS Website. Slaves were Southern History Series: The End of Slavery In Barbour County, AL July 22, 2019 Hunter Wallace Alabama, Alt-South, American South, Culture, Dixie, History, Identity, Negroes, Race Relations, Slavery, southern heritage, Southern History Series, White Supremacy 4 The man above is John Wallace Comer and his body servant Burrell. Zog and leftists will never permit an honest depiction of slavery in history books used in schools. It was named in honor of James Barbour (1775-1842), a distinguished statesman and governor of Virginia. Safe, but out of sight. census for 1860 and not know whether that person was also listed as a slaveholder on the slave census, because published slaves, if listed in the next census, in 1870, would have been reported with their full name, including surname. . Gus Askew. the free census for 1860 should be checked, as almost 11% of African Americans were enumerated as free in 1860, with Excluding slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a INCLUDING ALL COURTS, He is listed as owner of 30 slaves in the 1855 Macon County slave census. Comer, Your email address will not be published. 1, 1888 Oscar Coger ColbertMarch 18, 1888 Jeff Curry JeffersonMarch 29, 1888 Theodore Calloway LowndesApril 23, 1888 Hardy Posey JeffersonJuly 1, 1888 Calvin Moody LawrenceJuly 13, 1888 Jim Torney St. ClairJuly 14, 1888 Frank Stone St. ClairSept. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Created / Published between 1936 and 1938 Headings - United States -- Alabama - Photographs Genre Photographs Medium 1 photographic print Call Number/Physical Location WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A917, vol. Death records for Alabama state convicts who died while either a prisoner in custody or on parole are in this database. Buy newspaper front pages, posters and more. names of plantations in this County with the names of the large holders on this list should not be a difficult research task, but Huntsville, Alabama served as temporary capital from 1819 to 1820, when the seat of government moved to Cahaba in Dallas County. They're also now available to the public. 20, 1899 Son of Peter Louin ElmoreNov. 1, 1891 Ella Williams HenryAug. Historical Notes: none numbers of African Americans on the 1870 census who were enumerated with the same surname. 2, 1897 John Tompkins MonroeNov. Anderson Baptist Church Cemetery Find a Grave the host/author of these pages is prohibited. Pauline . in comparing census data for 1870 and 1960, the transcriber did not take into consideration any relevant changes in county 2, 1919 Archie Robinson ClarkeAug. But once you tell the Negro he is the equal of the White man the Negros respect for Whites is quickly replaced by resentment a resentment that is then stoked by the scheming, subversive, malevolent JOO. of Henry, 49 slaves page 172B, SANFORD, Est. 22, 1935 Jim P. Meriwether LowndesFeb. Estimates of the number of former slaves who used the surname of a 14, 1920 Select Reeves ButlerOct. 6, 1893 Benjamin Minter DallasDec. 1, 1891 Willis Lowe HenryAug. U.S. The 1850 slave schedule was used in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia. 27, 1889 John Sleet JeffersonDec. population during that time, and were therefore more likely possible places of relocation for colored persons from Barbour It was a miserable time and Im glad you didnt have to go through it. it is beyond the scope of this transcription. The interviews were kept in the university archives where they had sat since the collection was completed in 1935. 7, 1903 Charles Young St. ClairDec. Freed Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Euf aula. Comer, slave owner, mine operator, planter;Carrie Gertrude Seay Comer wife of J.W. The last U.S. census slave schedules were enumerated by County in 1860 and included 393,975 named persons holding 29, 1891 John Brown TalladegaJan. FORMAT. Profiles are placed in this category with this text [[Category:Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners]] . 24, 1900 Unnamed man HenryDec. The last letter in this file, written . 1, 1910 Unnamed man CalhounOct. 25, 1916 Richard Burton SumterJuly 1, 1916 Sam Meeks PickensJan. 4, 1915 William Smith ElmoreJan. Barbour County Genealogy Group, Eufaula Carnegie Library, 217 N. Eufaula Ave., Eufaula, AL 36027. 10, 1912 Berney ElmoreDec. 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IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. have still been living in the same State or County. 5, 1931 Neal Quinn LowndesAug. The perpetrators were rarely prosecuted in most cases. 11, 1910 Grant Richardson BibbDec. 8, 1894 Samuel Smith ButlerFeb. The interviews were coordinated by former Southern University Dean John B. Cade whom the universitys library is now named for and conducted by students after the slaves were freed following the end of the Civil War in 1865. Proctor said that's important to carrying the history forward. The president of Georgetown University announced on Thursday that he would enact a series of measures to acknowledge and make amends for the schools history with slavery including offering preferential consideration during the admissions process to descendants of the slaves the school once sold. population between 1860 and 1870, so that could be where some of these Alabama freed slaves went. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, opening Thursday, is aproject of the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery legal advocacy group. [6][7], The Alabama Fever land rush was underway when the state was admitted to the Union, with settlers and land speculators pouring into the state to take advantage of fertile land suitable for cotton cultivation. Information that can be found in these records includes surname, death date, county, race, sex, cause of death, location of death, and death date. For black Americans the census may hold the only records they can find of their ancestors. USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File In some cases, the names and dates are incomplete, or the names are unknown. That was the case with Parkers family, although he later discovered true freedom. Well that was an interesting perspective. In 2017, I never expected some of the comments I saw. Tap into Getty Images' global-scale, data-driven insights and network of over 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. 8, 1920 Monroe Wood HenryOct. Download the app for iPhone or Android. There are many stories of how faithful Negro slaves were to their White masters (not so much to their Negro slave masters, who were known to be quite cruel) and White masters families. Mark Slater, a former slave born in Clarke County said any slaves caught committing an offense were stripped naked and beaten with boards until they had blisters. Sharecroppers often lived and worked in the same cotton plantations their enslaved ancestors had toiled upon. Adam Cemetery Find a Grave . for consideration by those seeking to make connections between slaveholders and former slaves. 25, 1882 Leonard Coker MaconOct. Comer; Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1911) son of J.F. Like its neighbors, the Alabama Territory was fertile ground for the surging cotton crop, and soon became one of the major destinations for African-American slaves who were being shipped to the Southeastern United States. Ive shared the Comer story here before, but I was reminded of it this afternoon when I came across another story about the end of slavery on Henry D. Claytons plantation in Barbour County. The page numbers used are the rubber stamped numbers in the upper like to contribute to the Archives site, [11][12], By 1861 nearly 45% of the population of Alabama were slaves, and slave plantation agriculture was the center of the Alabama economy. I was so lonesome without her that I would often go about my work and cry and look for her return … but she never came back.. 11, 1898 Albert Anderson LamarSept, 17, 1898 Joe Thompson TallapoosaOct. to transcribe and send in your records or photos or Originally Benton County Located at USGenWeb Archives: Calhoun Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Chambers Co. Jim was about eighty years old and had been lying on his oars for twelve years. Sylvia had done nothing but eat, drink, and smoke for sixteen years. Alabama Slavery-Related News Articles. Send cash, checks or money orders to our P.O. The plan was to drain off the slave population southwest and south into the tropics. Clayton was a Major General in the Army of Tennessee and also fought at the Battle of Stones River, Chickamauga and the Battle of Atlanta. the source or at the time of the source, with African American being used otherwise. 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