Henry County African American Genealogy

African American Genealogy records are much more difficult to find due to the scant nature of record keeping for blacks prior to the Civil War. We have tried to provide you with a broad sampling of what records are presently available on line.

On line African American Books

Narrative of Lundsford Lane
Embracing an account of his early life and his banishment from the place of his birth for the crime of wearing a colored skin.
The Fugitive Blacksmith
Events in the history of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church
History of Liberia
History of Slave Narratives
Instructions and general information on how the narratives were to be compiled
Henry Ossian Flipper, The Colored Cadet at West Point
Autobiography of the First Graduate of color from the US Military Academy
History of the Negro Soldiers in the Spanish American War
along with other items on interest
Great Riots of New York 1712-1873
Clotelle or The Colored Heroine
A novel, I leave it to the reader to determine if fact or fiction
A Century of Negro Migration
Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18, The Fugitive Slave Law, and its Victims

African American Online Projects

African American Mailing Lists

Military Records

Alabama Slave Records

Surname Lists. Alphabetical lists of large slaveholder surnames with County and State
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