Multiple sources to research African-American families in Alabama are available. Slave census quoted simply with demographic information about slaves contained 1850 and 1860, also the censuses of slaves in earlier censuses. The minutes of the Bureau of Refugees, and Abandoned Lands released particulars that workplace to work the issues that freed after the Civil War relief.
- USF Africana Heritage Project (africanaheritage.com)
- 19th Century Village Life (mooresvillealabama.com)
- Alabama African American Genealogy (rootsweb.com)
- Black Families of Alabama’s Black Belt (prairiebluff.com)
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 (memory.loc.gov)
- Joseph G. Baldwin’s The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi (ocsouth.unc.edu)
- Using Primary Sources in the Classroom: Slavery Unit (archives.alabama.gov)
- American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
- Montgomery Slave Auction: Harper’s Weekly (blackhistory.harpweek.com)
- Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave: Electronic Edition. (ocsouth.unc.edu)
- Kate E. R. Pickard, The Kidnapped and The Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife Vina after Forty Years of Slavery (ocsouth.unc.edu)
- The Alabama Supreme Court and Slaves (http://www.lib.auburn.edu/archive/aghy/slaves.htm)
- AL-AfricaAmer. A mailing list for anyone with an interest in African American genealogy in Alabama. Additional information can be found on the Alabama African American Genealogy web site and the Alabama Slavery and History website. To subscribe send “subscribe” to al-africaamer-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or al-africaamer-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
- AL-AfriGeneas. A mailing list to coordinate, network and strengthen the efforts of African ancestored family researchers within Alabama. You can subscribe from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/al-afrigeneas/ or by sending the following to al-afrigeneas-subscribe@yahoogroups.com: subscribe
- AL-FREEDMEN. A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in Freedmen in Alabama from all ethnic backgrounds (e.g., African, Native American, Caucasian). To subscribe send “subscribe” to al-freedmen-l-request@rootsweb.com (mail mode) or al-freedmen-d-request@rootsweb.com (digest mode).
