Ohio African American History and Genealogy

Ohio African American History and Genealogy

Ancestry.com Slave NarrativesPerhaps no other resource approaches the range of human experience found in Ancestry.com’s Slave Narratives. This collection of interviews stands in contrast to other slave narratives that appear in most literature anthologies which were written by the rare few who, against staggering odds, had become literate. This database provides a more poignant picture of what it was to live as a slave in the American South. Taken from The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, this collection is the most complete available picture of the African-American slavery experience. There is simply no other historical document quite like it. The collection contains over 20,000 pages of type-scripted interviews with more than 3,500 former slaves collected over a ten year period. (Requires Ancestry.com Membership) Get 14 Days Free Access!!!

The African American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920 is a digital collection brought together from a number of individual sources specifically for this project. These sources include manuscript collections, newspaper articles, serials, photographs, and pamphlets. It was our intention to bring together as many diverse sources as possible to provide evidence of the diversity and complexity of African-American culture during this time period and to let those sources tell their own story without interpretation. (Ohio Historical Society)

Directory of the Names of Underground Railroad Operators
African American Cemeteries Online

Miami County
1850 Federal Census, Free Persons of Color

African-American Surnames Database

African-American Civil War Soldiers & Sailors

African-American Warriors – Links to surname databases related to several wars

The Colored Patriots of The American Revolution

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society  P. O. 73086
Washington DC 20056-3086
The African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc. (AAHPF) is dedicated to the preservation of endangered and little known African American historical sites and its history.

American Cross Race Genealogy Research
Devoted to finding and developing more resources for those of us researching American cross-racial family history and/or ancestors who were or may have been of mixed-race ancestry.

Middle Passage History
The Middle Passage was a term used to describe the triangular route of trade that brought Africans to the Americas and rum and sugar cane to Europe. It was synonymous with pain and suffering. The journey from Africa to the Americas would take as many as 30 to 90 days.

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