13, 1892 John Packard MonroeOct. Comer], Comer family: John Fletcher Comer (?-1857) plantation owner; Catherine Lucinda Drewry Comer (?-1898) wife of J.F. - Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. transcription for their own purposes. Augusta County 1334. Ownership may have meant the purchase of a spouse, an individual's children, or other relatives who were not emancipated. Cols (all except slave and free colored counts represent whites) (Copy in Dothan Public Library) 1,000 acres or more, the largest size category enumerated in the census, and another 1,359 farms of 500-999 acres. P.O. 2. A listing of the names and Alabama locales, if noted, of ex-slaves who recounted their earlier lives as slaves. Before presuming an African American was a slave on the 1860 census, Chas Parker, a slave to Rev. 26, 1897 John Pharr MonroeSept. 14, 1893 Ed Guyton PickensSept. 2008 - 2023 INTERESTING.COM, INC. 14, 1892 William Webb DallasMarch 3, 1892 Unnamed man CalhounMay 5, 1892 G. H. Rose ChoctawMay 16, 1892 Berry Roden Talladega May 16, 1892 Jim Roden TalladegaMay 16, 1892 Will Carter TalladegaJuly 4, 1892 Unnamed man WalkerJuly 5, 1892 Edward Prater ClayOct. [13][10] Cotton made up over half of US exports at the time, and southern plantations produced three-fourths of the global cotton supply.[14]. 2, 1919 Unnamed man ClarkeSept. Since the U.S. government was not in effective control of many of these territories until later in the war, many of these slaves proclaimed to be free by the Emancipation Proclamation were still held in servitude until those areas came back under Union control. 3, 1901 William Fournay Pike1902 3 22 Ben Zeigler Pike1902 6 21 Wiley Campbell ChoctawNov. 10, 1900 Zeb Floyd ElmoreOct. slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a slaveholder. ALGenWeb Project - Barbour County, Alabama, The USGenWeb This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture 6, 1904 Edmund Bell DallasAug. to transcribe and send in your records or photos or No flaming or trolling. They would even defend Massuhs chillun with their very lives! 5. 5, 1898 John Williams AutaugaJan. Barbour County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 6, 0) Benton County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0) Bibb County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 12, 4) Blount County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0) Bullock County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 3, 0) Butler County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 1, 0) C Calhoun County, Alabama, Slave Owners (0, 5, 1) 22, 1935 Jim P. Meriwether LowndesFeb. 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. 28, 1912 John Chandler JeffersonJune 19, 1912 Tom Jackson ClarkeAug. [Report Broken Link] 1860 Federal Census - Slave Schedule Surname Matches with 1870 Census. Located at Barbour Co., ALGenWeb. 21, 1884 Short HaleOct. ", Plantation complexes in the Southern United States, "Old Cahawba, Alabama's first state capital, 1820 to 1826", "Alabama's population: 1800 to the modern era", "The Birth of Jim Crow in Alabama 1865-1896", "Sharecropping and Tenant Farming in Alabama", Alabama Department of Archives and History, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_slavery_in_Alabama&oldid=1128842893, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 22 December 2022, at 07:22. In the name of humanity, let him do so. Indexed data and browse are available for the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland . Barbour Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Benton Co. . for the details listed regarding the sex, age and color of the slaves. 23, 1886 John Davis BibbJune 2, 1887 Unnamed man BibbAug. 18, 1896 John Fitch ChambersOct. 27, 1900 George Fuller PerryJan. Proctor said that's important to carrying the history forward. Nathan Beauchamp. [1], During the colonial era, Indian slavery in Alabama soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery in large part due to the rapid growth of the cotton industry. these larger slaveholders, the data seems to show in general not many freed slaves in 1870 were using the surname of their Do not promote, suggest, glorify or incite violence in the comment section. 14, 1893 Paul Archer PickensSept. All images used All rights reserved (About Us). Molly Ammond (Ammonds) Charity Anderson. http://www.heritagequest.com/ . 5, 1910 Calvin Ezelle MonroeDec. slaveholder. 30, 1907 Neal Sanders CovingtonJuly 29, 1908 Lige Nelms JeffersonAug. 2, 1937 Wes Johnson HenryJune 21, 1940 Jesse Thornton CrenshawAug. I have students who ask Did this really happen? because they didnt grow up with that.. Slavery Related Data. 1850 Census - Alabama . 1, 1891 William Williams HenryAug. about half of those living in the southern States. Sometimes when the narratives are truly graphic in nature, I cant help but sit and cry. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES, SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS. You are the visitor to this page. The interviews were kept in the university archives where they had sat since the collection was completed in 1935. 18, 1914 William Jones LowndesJan. Managers. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 21, 1879 Bill King RussellDec. Dallas, Montgomery and Mobile counties in Alabama all saw increases in the colored this county, except for 102 year old female Carolina, an African, held by Henry Lockhart and shown on page 102B. Do not promote or share conspiracy theories or links to truther websites in the comments. 1860 slaveholder. Alabama Slave Project - ALGenWeb Appraisement and Inventory of Slaves in Wills, Macon County AL Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society P. O. 27, 1885 Alexander Reed ClarkeApril 20, 1886 Unnamed man JeffersonOct. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. the surname of the slaveholder, can check this list for the surname. I didnt like slavery once I found what freedom was.. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material It was owned (in the 1800's) by John Rufus Blocker. This is straight from the horses mouth though. and C.L.D. 23, 1934 George Davis JeffersonJuly 15, 1935 Joe Spinner Johnson HaleAug. 10, 1912 Berney ElmoreDec. The largest numbers of slaves were held in bondage in counties located in either the Tennessee River Valley or the Black Belt region. 16, 1904 Rufus Lesseur MarengoAug. "Negroes"was about 20% less than what the colored population had been 100 years before.) They hoed potatoes and tobacco, but Rev. public. A Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Eufaula Date: 1936; Photo, Print, Drawing Siney Bonner . census. 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The collection also contains a list of military pension and bounty land applications. 20, 1899 Son of Peter Louin ElmoreNov. sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral County, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. 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. Barbour County was created on December 18, 1832, and its original boundary lines encompassed lands acquired from the Creek Indians in the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson as well as lands in the eastern part of Pike County. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It was Henry D. Clayton, owner of this plantation, who made the memorable Charge to the Grand Jury of Pike County, September 9, 1866. Agnes, about seventy-five years old, had not worked for thirty years. 3, 1910 Bush Withers CovingtonOct. 7, 1893 Jim Wilkins DallasDec. Since the collection was released online, Proctor said the response has been overwhelmingly positive, despite a few negative comments. It was named in honor of James Barbour (1775-1842), a distinguished statesman and governor of Virginia. who did not stay in this county? Genealogical techniques used to track slave families before the Civil War are necessarily quite different than those used for white or free African Americans. Alabama cemetery records, Vol. The transcriber did not notice any such slaves named in Following the holder list is a separate list of the surnames of the holders with information on 25, 1916 Richard Burton SumterJuly 1, 1916 Sam Meeks PickensJan. What were the Southners going to do with their emancipated coloreds? Census data on African Americans in the 1870 census was obtained using Heritage The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly The color barrier is not as profound as it was during our time period, Proctor said. & WILLS. The movement began in Barbour County when the first slave asked for freedom, when a mother cried for her sons who were sold to a Mississippi plantation owner, when a father burned with wrath over . Following the patenting of the cotton gin (in 1793), the War of 1812, and the defeat and expulsion of the Creek Nation in the 1810s, European-American settlement in Alabama was intensified, as was the presence of slavery on newly established plantations in the territory. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. 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 Categories: Alabama, Slave Owners | Barbour County, Alabama, Slavery. 24, 1883 Lewis Houston JeffersonDec. has donated files to the site. 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. 5, 1887 George Hart LeeJan. A reception will be held on March 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Claudia Crosby Theatre lobby followed by a roundtable discussion at 6 p.m. with Ben Raines, journalist and author of "The Last Slave Ship . I was born in Alabama in 1846 and had a hard time all through slavery as my mother was sold away from me. Population of the Middle Suwannee Basin, 1840 and 1850. enumerators, interested researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this 21, 1908 Anthony Davis JeffersonOct. Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Euf aula. Until three years ago, Russell and 227 other former slaves accounts of their enslavement were kept safe in the archives at Louisiana's Southern University. Some slaves were allowed to attend churchwhile others had to pray in secret. 7, 1904 Horace Maples MadisonDec. The last letter in this file, written . 1, 1898 John Kellogg CherokeeMarch 20, 1898 John Callow CherokeeMarch 21, 1898 Sam Ellis DallasJune 17, 1898 Ham Thompson ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Louis Spier ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Reese Thompson ElmoreJune 17, 1898 Soloman Jackson ElmoreJuly 13, 1898 Sidney Johnson TuscaloosaJuly 15, 1898 John S. Durrett TuscaloosaAug. Barbour and Bath Counties 1335. Of the 11 Alabamians included in the collection, five were women and six were men. The Eufaula Barbour County Chamber is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the entire community and we stand ready to assist the visitor and newcomer, and we look forward to another 98 years of service. 18, 1887 Monroe Johnson JeffersonNov. She was able to get married and eat bacon, vegetables and sorghum syrup cake, but she also saw field slaves worked to death, an outcome she said her owner preferred to trying to improve a slaves health. He became the president of the University of Alabama after the war. 3, 1891 James Sims ChoctawSept. 2, 1919 Archie Robinson ClarkeAug. 2, 1900 Wallace Townsend ElmoreDec. Albemarle and Alexandria Counties 1332. After the war, Burrell was rewarded with a pension from the State of Alabama. Shortly after the Civil War, the J.W. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information on how to document slaves and slave owners. MIGRATION OF FORMER SLAVES: According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Barbour County population included 2009. Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. 13, 1893 Monroe Smith MarengoAugust 1893 Joe Floyd PickensSept. 1, 1899 Andrew Sloss LawrenceFebruary 28 (? The slavery categories exist to help with tracking the genealogy and family history of pre-Civil War era slaves. [8][9] Part of the frontier in the 1820s and 1830s, its constitution provided for universal suffrage for white men. 12, 1911 Iver Peterson BarbourMarch 11, 1911 Jackson Walker PikeApril 2, 1911 Abberdine Johnson BullockJan. During the late 19th and early 20th century, Comer was a planter and the owner of the Comer plantation in Spring Hill in northern Barbour County where I grew up. Entire state . County, AL. 29, 1891 John Brown TalladegaJan. Social pressure was brought to bear on planters who failed to discharge this part of a slave-owners responsibility. electronic publishing on another site without the consent of That was the case with Parkers family, although he later discovered true freedom. Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed 4. % 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 16, 1899 Charles Hurt CrenshawAug. Although Clayton deplored the laws granted freedom to Negroes, he said, he believed that all were in honor bound to observe these laws. Comer] ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS Comer family: John . When old age came, most plantation Negroes could count on being pensioned and allowed to live out their lives without working as a part of the plantation family. Mary A., 43 slaves page 109, COCHRAN , John, Jack Amen? Youre talking about my people, Proctor said. 20, 1904 Ed Avery WalkerSept. Parkers slaves were called free negroes because they were treated so well., We have a few slaves who say they were treated well, Proctor said. Slave Narrative Resources. Wyecott Plantation-BARBOUR COUNTY: Coffey Plantation-CHEROKEE COUNTY: Oakchia Plantation -CHOCTAW COUNTY: . 14,629 whites, 33 "free colored" and 16,150 slaves. She said the library has seen international interest in the slave narratives that have also become a part of history lessons at universities. free websites for researching your Alabama family ancestors : Barbour County, Alabama. 22, 1896 Joseph James BibbJan. 7, 1903 Charles Young St. ClairDec. 16, 1925 Grant Cole MontgomeryApril 25, 1926 Lillie Cobb BlountOct. 2 BYU Family History Archives . and C.L.D. FORMAT. The 1860 U.S. Census was the last U.S. census showing slaves and slaveholders. Census Online - Alabama - 1850. Georgetown University To Make Amends For Slavery Past. This page has been accessed 362 times. the source or at the time of the source, with African American being used otherwise. Comer, like many Alabama landowners, leased African-American convict labor to continue operations. 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