County, included the following: Georgia, up 80,000 to 545,000 (17%); Texas, up 70,000 (38%); North Carolina, up 31,000 Included are records of cotton and corn planted, picked, and stored, In 1999, Southern University archivist Angela Proctor began the painstaking task of reading, scanning and transcribing 228 handwritten interviews. Any commercial use, or, individuals, both white and black, who lived at Faunsdale Plantation in Marengo County, Alabama and in Uniontown, Alabama. contact: The 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. 16, 1894 William George ChiltonFeb. 2, 1919 Unnamed man ClarkeSept. 26, 1889 Bud Wilson TuscaloosaMarch 21, 1890 Robert Mosley MadisonMarch 29, 1890 Frank Griffin ChiltonJune 7, 1890 Unnamed man ShelbyJuly 23, 1890 Tobe Williams BlountSept. 5. Comer; Braxton Bragg Comer (1848-1911) son of J.F. Barbour County Genealogy Group, Eufaula Carnegie Library, 217 N. Eufaula Ave., Eufaula, AL 36027. Narrative of Jackson, the Vice-President's Slave. What was life like on the Democrat plantation? Of the 11 Alabamians included in the collection, five were women and six were men. USGenWeb Archives Project - Alabama Main Table of Contents, The 3, 1907 Jerry Johnson JeffersonSept. Alabama Vital Records P.O. Alabama QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau 1870 - 1903 1830 Autauga County Alabama Census Autauga County Alabama Census Index Blount County Alabama Census Social pressure was brought to bear on planters who failed to discharge this part of a slave-owners responsibility. 8, 1877 Mark Woodford ClarkeApril 17, 1878 Ben Evans MadisonApril 17, 1878 Ephraim Hall MadisonSept. 15, 1920 Jack Waters CovingtonMarch 11, 1920 Wilbur Smith MontgomeryJuly 30, 1920 Juster Jennings DaleJuly 30, 1920 Sills Spinks DaleAug. Slavery was officially abolished in the United States, following the end of the US Civil War by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect on December 18, 1865. WIKITREE PROTECTS MOST SENSITIVE INFORMATION BUT ONLY TO THE EXTENT STATED IN THE TERMS OF SERVICE AND PRIVACY POLICY. 3, 1910 Bush Withers CovingtonOct. 1. Cols (all except slave and free colored counts represent whites) (Copy in Dothan Public Library) Located at Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870. Comer], 1860: 61 slaves[1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, C.L. 6, 1906 William Thompson MobileJan. Barbour Co. 1860 Federal Census - Mortality Schedule Archived Copy; Original page no longer online. Their conduct in this trying time, he observed, should prove to the world the love, fear, and high regard they entertained for their former masters.. Barbour Co., AL [Report Broken Link] Benton Co. . Alabama African American Census. ancestor was one of the larger slaveholders in the County. 1, 1891 William Williams HenryAug. 8, 1920 Monroe Wood HenryOct. 8, 1943 Willie Lee Cooper Monroe. 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. When the Civil War reached Alabama, he buried about $100,000 in gold somewhere on his property. During the War Between the States, he served in the 57th Alabama Infantry Regiment in the Army of Tennessee. Then whips were used to burst the blisters, Slaters interview reads. 8, 1894 Samuel Smith ButlerFeb. The slavery categories exist to help with tracking the genealogy and family history of pre-Civil War era slaves. Augusta County 1334. 19, 1912 Unnamed man SumterFeb. But the accounts also reveal stark differences in some owners treatments of slaves. it is beyond the scope of this transcription. of Henry, 49 slaves page 172B, SANFORD, Est. John Wallace Comer was injured during the Battle of Atlanta and was rescued from the battlefield by his loyal slave Burrell. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. 10, 1912 Berney ElmoreDec. Filed under Alabama, Author: E Davis, Barbour Co., Davis. 6, 1893 Benjamin Minter DallasDec. OVERVIEW Location: Spring Hill, Barbour County, Alabama Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined Associated Surnames: Comer Historical Notes: none Associated Pages: none ASSOCIATED ENSLAVED PERSONS 1850: 42 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, J.F. Subscribe to this website and receive notification each time a free genealogy resource is newly published. [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]. The full archive can be seen online atlib.subr.edu. If an African American ancestor with one of these surnames 10, 1918 William Bird ColbertNov. ancestor not shown to hold slaves on the 1860 slave census could have held slaves on an earlier census, so those films can be The national memorial aims to teach about America's past in hope of promoting understanding and healing. 8, 1915 James Fox MonroeAug. More: A permanent wound: How the slave tax warped Alabama finances. It is possible to locate a free person on the Barbour County, Alabama Alabama Deaths and Burials Index, 1881-1974 (selections) Ancestry Alabama cemetery records Family History Library . 25, 1916 Richard Burton SumterJuly 1, 1916 Sam Meeks PickensJan. IMPORTANT PRIVACY NOTICE & DISCLAIMER: YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO USE CAUTION WHEN DISTRIBUTING PRIVATE INFORMATION. From the Collection: The collection contains genealogical research notes covering 1820-1880, including county data, church and marriage records, family histories, and other materials. this county, except for 102 year old female Carolina, an African, held by Henry Lockhart and shown on page 102B. The memorial lists the names of 4,400. Date Constructed/ Founded: not determined 3,950,546 unnamed slaves, or an average of about ten slaves per holder. 13, 1933 Dan Pippen BibbSept. 1, 1910 Unnamed man CalhounOct. The museum and memorial is believed to be the nation's first site to document racial inequality from slavery through the Jim Crow era and into the present. 73086 Washington DC 20056-3086 providing space for this site 26, 1894 Thomas Douglas SumterMarch 29, 1894 Oliver Jackson MontgomeryApril 12, 1894 William Lewis WilcoxApril 22, 1894 John Williams ColbertApril 22, 1894 Thomas Black ColbertApril 22, 1894 Tony Johnson ColbertApril 1894 Two unnamed men ChiltonJune 25, 1894 Edward White LamarJune 30, 1894 Lewis Bankhead ChiltonNov. [Report Broken Link] Blount Co. 1860 Federal Census. Barbour County, Alabama Description of the Collection This small collection comprises a journal kept by Comer, 1844-1847, containing various kinds of records relating to agricultural activities on his Barbour County, Alabama, plantation and to his lumber and corn mills. This page has been accessed 362 times. 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) [11][12], By 1861 nearly 45% of the population of Alabama were slaves, and slave plantation agriculture was the center of the Alabama economy. 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. . 5, 1910 Sylvester Peyton MonroeFeb. former owner in 1870, vary widely and from region to region. More: Alabama history tour covers Civil War, cotton - not slaves, Slaves that belonged to ministers recalled having better lives than most. 16, 1890 Henry Smith JeffersonMarch 24, 1891 John Dances ShelbyMarch 28, 1891 Elrod Hudson FranklinMarch 28, 1891 Jeff Denzmore (Dinsmore) FranklinMarch 31, 1891 Zachariah Graham MobileMay 2, 1891 Monroe Watters LamarMay 29, 1891 Jeff Thomas WalkerJuly 18, 1891 Mack Brown BlountJuly 26, 1891 Jesse Underwood ColbertAug. distribution, or generated by the author, and are subject to Perry County, Alabama Register of Slaves Brought into Alabama after 16 Day of Jan 1832. commercial enterprise and information found Slave Cabin in Barbour County, Near Euf aula. 29, 1919 Miles Phifer MontgomerySept. 22, 1896 Joseph James BibbJan. WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. TERMINOLOGY. to transcribe and send in your records or photos or The slavery categories exist to help with tracking the genealogy and family history of pre-Civil War era slaves. [ hide person profiles] Person Profiles (6) Huntsville, Alabama served as temporary capital from 1819 to 1820, when the seat of government moved to Cahaba in Dallas County. This transcription includes 98 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in Barbour County, accounting for 6,860 slaves, or 42% of the County total. Pages numbers under 150 were shown as in the Eastern Comer] ASSOCIATED FREE PERSONS Comer family: John . 19, 1882 Jack Turner ChoctawAug. Quest's CD "African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census", available through Heritage Quest at He may have been the companion of your boyhood. This page was last modified 08:33, 11 May 2021. 2, 1907 Abe Sumrall WashingtonNov. Page 17 the work contentedly and happy. Ownership may have meant the purchase of a spouse, an individual's children, or other relatives who were not emancipated. 4. The largest numbers of slaves were held in bondage in counties located in either the Tennessee River Valley or the Black Belt region. Entire state . 2, 1901 Charley Bend St. ClairAug. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. 27, 1900 George Fuller PerryJan. 26, 1890 Jim Tate BibbNov. On January 29, 1858, Alabama supporters of slavery, objecting to Benton's change of heart, renamed Benton County as Calhoun County. Their stories include the inhumanity of their conditions: children having to eat out of troughs, and field slaves being herded into pens like cattle. The following excerpt comes from James Benson Sellers classic book Slavery In Alabama: On the Clayton plantation, when the slaves were told that they were no longer bound to remain, their former master offered to each one who decided to go conveyance and provisions for the rest of the year. I thought I would share it. Managers. 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? 25, 1913 Joe Green CovingtonAug. 20, 1904 Ed Avery WalkerSept. have still been living in the same State or County. Since the collection was released online, Proctor said the response has been overwhelmingly positive, despite a few negative comments. Harriet was only about fifty years old, but she had been enjoying a pension already for eleven or twelve years.. [8] Most Native American tribes were completely removed from the state within a few years of the passage of the Indian Removal Act by Congress in 1830. If the surname is not on this list, the microfilm can be Barbour County, accounting for 6,860 slaves, or 42% of the County total. It may be that when, only a few years ago, you girded on your cartridge-box and shouldered your trusty rifle, to go meet the invaders of your country, you committed to his care your home and your loves ones; and when you were far away upon the weary march, upon the dreadful battlefield, in the trenches, and on the picket line, many and many a time you thought of that faithful old negro and your heart warmed towards him , These words, Mr. Clayton thought, indicated the condition into which the country had been plunged by the termination of the war. 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(AP Photo/Brynn Anderson). 6, 1909 Will Parker MonroeApril 25, 1909 John Thomas JeffersonSept. 20, 1884 J. R. Dorsey CherokeeMay 8, 1885 Jordan ColbertMay 9, 1885 Scipio Atchison ChiltonOct. 4, 1906 Jim Cotton BarbourFeb. Comer], Comer family: John Fletcher Comer (?-1857) plantation owner; Catherine Lucinda Drewry Comer (?-1898) wife of J.F. 9, 1896 Joseph Leeds St. ClairFeb. 11, 1906 Bunk Richardson EtowahOct. 7, 1893 Jim Wilkins DallasDec. Calhoun County, AL Queries/Join eMail Group Parker's slaves "were. Slaves were It should be noted however, that 2, 1897 John Tompkins MonroeNov. 2. 1 item, 1 Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, and Sheri Marie Shuck-Hall. enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind Parkerlater escaped. 28, 1912 John Chandler JeffersonJune 19, 1912 Tom Jackson ClarkeAug. They would even defend Massuhs chillun with their very lives! 27, 1905 Alex MacDonald LimestoneFeb. 13, 1892 Moses Johnson MonroeOct. 1, 1891 Eliza Lowe HenryAug. 14, 1893 Ed Guyton PickensSept. This page has been accessed 2,379 times. The slave trade with Africa was supposedly abolished in 1808; however, we know this was too profitable a business for some as well as a way to provide free labor to wealthy farmers. . In Alabama in 1860 there were 482 farms of http://www.heritagequest.com/ . The census further lists Georgia as . Ownership was also an investment: purchased children and adults may or may not have been . Fayette County, Alabama 1850 Slave Schedules Fayette County, Alabama 1860 Slave Schedules Greene Co, AL Deeds of Samuel Morrow Documenting Prior Slave Emancipation(slaves owned by Samuel Morrow in Greene County, AL) Henry-Dale County, AL Archives WillsWard Sr, Shadrach January 1848(slaves owned by Shadrach Ward Sr. in Henry County, AL) The perpetrators were rarely prosecuted in most cases. population between 1860 and 1870, so that could be where some of these Alabama freed slaves went. 14, 1920 Select Reeves ButlerOct. 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. 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. 24, 1883 Lewis Houston JeffersonDec. 11, 1898 Albert Anderson LamarSept, 17, 1898 Joe Thompson TallapoosaOct. This transcription includes 98 slaveholders who held 40 or more slaves in You should thank God you are free.'". Mary A., 43 slaves page 109, COCHRAN , John, Jack Amen? 5, 1887 George Hart LeeJan. Albemarle and Alexandria Counties 1332. 23, 1934 George Davis JeffersonJuly 15, 1935 Joe Spinner Johnson HaleAug. 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. 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. The USGenWeb Archives Project is part of The USGenWeb Project. FORMAT. They hoed potatoes and tobacco, but Rev. Wyecott Plantation-BARBOUR COUNTY: Coffey Plantation-CHEROKEE COUNTY: Oakchia Plantation -CHOCTAW COUNTY: . 1850 Federal Census Barbour County, Alabama (Source: MyHeritage) ($) Alabama State Census, 1820-1866 Barbour County (Source: Explore Ancestry for free) ($) United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 Barbour County (Source: FamilySearch) USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File 24, 1900 Unnamed man HenryDec. The Comer family, white cotton planters, lumber yard owners, and enslavers of Barbour County, Ala., included Catherine Lucinda Comer (d. 1898), who, widowed in 1858, continued to farm cotton and to operate the family's corn mill and lumber yard, and her six sons: Hugh Moss Comer (1842-1900); John Wallace Comer (1845-1919); St. George Legare Comer (b. Well that was an interesting perspective. Categories: Alabama, Slavery | United States of America, Slave Owners. these former slaves may have been using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may On Sunday we would pray to God to fix some way for us to be freed from our mean masters.. "Cose I was borned a slave, but I don't 'member much 'bout hit, 'caze I was li'l. Dere is one t'ing I . After the war, Burrell was rewarded with a pension from the State of Alabama. involving all obtainable records of the holder. Associated Pages: none, 1850:42 slaves [1850 Federal Slave Schedule, Barbour Co., AL, J.F. Researchers should start with their most recent ancestor using AccessGenealogy's Census Records main census records area, as the census taken after the civil war (1870 onwards) enumerated all blacks as they did whites. BROWDER, Est. 18, 1915 "Kid" Jackson MontgomeryAug. He would buckle us across a log and whip us until we were unable to walk for three days. Nov. 2, 1877 Owen Wright RussellDec. Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection. This website does not support violence. The study found 3,777 Negro slave owners in the United States. 1 Source Collection viewed to see if there were smaller slaveholders with that surname. & B. Y., 53 slaves page 177B, MCTYNE, Est. [Report Broken Link] 1860 Federal Census - Slave Schedule Surname Matches with 1870 Census. Freed enumerators, interested researchers should view the source film personally to verify or modify the information in this 1, 1899 Andrew Sloss LawrenceFebruary 28 (? free websites for researching your Alabama family ancestors : Barbour County, Alabama. 2 BYU Family History Archives . Barbour County, Alabama Larry Scott Butler Southern Christian Leadership Conference Field Worker for Barbour County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. . Send comments about this page to: The USGenWeb Archive Project -Alabama File Manager. 2, 1884 Jeff N. Rogers ChambersJuly 16, 1884 Joe Robertson GreeneJuly 18, 1884 Andy Burke TuscaloosaSept. A I have students who ask Did this really happen? because they didnt grow up with that.. 15, 1896 Robert Wilson MontgomeryApril 12, 1896 Reddick Adams RussellJune 21, 1896 Leon Orr MorganJune 24, 1896 William Westmoreland LowndesAug. See also list of Statewide Alabama Archives, Historical & Genealogical Societies. 29, 1891 John Brown TalladegaJan. 10, 1900 Zeb Floyd ElmoreOct. 18, 1893 Riley Gulley WilcoxOct. 6, 1904 Edmund Bell DallasAug. in 1860, is either non-existent or not readily available. . Thanks to Rootsweb for providing space for this site. 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