How do I find my slave name?
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How do I find my slave name?
The best place to find information about an enslaved person before 1812 is in the private papers of the slave owner, or in records about the owner or his or her property. Papers might still be with the family or deposited in a local archive or library where the family lived or settled.
How do I find the name of a slave owner?
Records That Identify Slave Owners Directly
- Newspapers.
- Freedmen’s Bureau Records.
- Freedman’s Bank Records.
- Southern Claims Commission Records.
- Compensated Emancipation Records.
- Civil War Pension Files.
- Church Records.
- 1850 U.S. Census – Slave Schedule.
What were common slave owner names?
Pages in category “American slave owners”
- Adelicia Acklen.
- Joseph Alexander Smith Acklen.
- James Uriah Adams.
- Joel Adams.
- Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician)
- William Wirt Adams.
- Thomas Affleck (planter)
- William Aiken Jr.
Which presidents didnt own slaves?
Of the U.S.’ first twelve presidents, the only two never to own slaves were John Adams, and his son John Quincy Adams; the first of which famously said that the American Revolution would not be complete until all slaves were freed.
Do you have a surname associated with a slave owner’s wife?
This may reveal your family used the surname of the slave owner’s wife’s family. African Americans tended to use surnames associated with their own families instead of the last slave owner. In the late 1830s, Nathaniel Terry of Todd County, Kentucky died leaving a plantation of fifty slaves.
How did African Americans get their first names?
This happened mostly on large plantations where several individuals had the same first names and a surname was used to distinguish them from one another. African Americans were known by these surnames in the slave community and often recorded by slave owners on plantation documents.
What was the name of the slave who attended the sheep?
Another slave named Bill who attended the sheep became Bill Shepherd. When slave owners married, they often received slaves as wedding gifts and inheritances from their wife’s family. As a result, many slaves used the surnames of their owner’s wife’s family.
How do you find the slaveowner of a slave?
Most books and classes that teach how to discover the slaveowner (once you’re back to the 1870 census) teach the strategy of starting by looking for white slaveowners in the area with that surname. If that doesn’t work, then you move on to other research strategies.