African-American Heritage

Information & Records


African-American Heritage Biographies & Obituaries Cemetery & Church
Census Records Court & Legal Records General Resources
Historical Records Map & Land Records Military Records
Native American Heritage MAIN PAGE Vital Records

Historical & Genealogical Societies
Afro-American Historical Association
4243 Loudoun Ave
The Plains, VA 20198
Phone: (540) 253-7488

   

 General Information
Register of Free Negroes 1817-1865

Cyndi's List for African American Resources

African American History Timelines

Free African Americans

Freedmen's Bureau Marriages 1861-1869  Some from Fauquier County, Virginia

Guide to African-American Documentary Resources in North Carolina

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, 1818-1895. by Himself, Electronic Edition

Douglass, Frederick. "My Escape from Slavery."

African American Resources  From the National Archives

History Of the Colored Troops in the American Civil War

US Colored Troops  From the Civil War Archive

Books On The Subject
Fauquier County, Virginia register of free Negroes, 1817-1865 by Karen King Ibrahim, 1993

Local Sources for African-American Family Historians using county court records and census returns by Joan W. Peters, 1993 Broad Run, Virginia. Contains historical background of court minute books and abstracts from those minute books, including appendices and index to names found in the abstracts of minute books, so far as they relate to African Americans. Family History Library Call Number, US/CAN Book Area-975.5275 - F2P


  Last Updated: April 2020