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Guide to African-American Resource Guides at the OGS Library
Generational Accounts
- Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. New York: Farrar, Straus and Girioux, 1998. [USA 973 AA21s]
- Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. New York: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. USA 973 AA173r
- Lucas, Ernestine Garrett. Wider Windows to the Past: African-American History from a Family Perspective. Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1995. [USA 973 AA962w]
- Powers, Bernard E. Jr. Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885. Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1994. [S CAROLINA 975.7 CHARLESTON AA872b]
- Walsh, Lorena S. From Calabar to Carter's Grove: The History of a Virginia Slave Community. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1997. [VIRGINIA 975.5 AA168f]
Manuals
- Blockson, Charles L., with Ron Fry. Black Genealogy. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1991. [USA 973 AA62b]
- Burroughs, Tony. Black Roots: A Beginner's Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. [USA 973 AA945b]
- Byers, Paula K. African American Genealogical Sourcebook. New York: Gale Research Inc., 1995. [USA 973 AA83a]
- Clem, Dee. Tracing African-American Roots. Las Vegas, NV: Gator Publishing, Inc., 1999. [USA 973 AA59t]
- Eakle, Arlene, and Johni Cerny. The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Revised Edition, Chapter 15, Tracking African American Family History, pp. 575-588. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1997. [USA 973 GN84s] [Reference Shelf]
- Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives. Chapter 12, Records of Black Americans, pp. 171-186. Washington DC: National Archives and Records Service, 1982. [USA 973 GN286g]
- Henritze, Barbara K. Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1995. [USA 973 AA395b]
- Secret, Jeanette Braxton. Guide to Tracing your African Ameripean Civil War Ancestor. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 3rd ed., 1997. [USA 973 AA25g]
- Streets, David H. Slave Genealogy: A Research Guide with Case Studies. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1986. [USA 973 AA83s]
- Thackery, David T. Finding Your African American Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide. Orem, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 2000. [USA 973 AA325f]
- Witcher, Curt Bryan. African American Genealogy: A Bibliography and Guide to Sources. Fort Wayne, IN: Round Tower Books, 2000. [USA 973 AA771a]
- Wright, Roberta Hughes, and Wilbur B. Hughes III. Lay Down Body: Living History in African American Cemeteries. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996. [USA 973 AA935l]
Manuscripts
- Fleischner, Jennifer. Mastering Slavery: Memory, Family, and Identity in Women's Slave Narratives. New York: New York University Press, 1996. [USA 973 AA628m]
- Hidinger, Nancy Hill. William H. Jones Funeral Home Records, 1950-1975, Mansfield, Ohio. [MANUSCRIPTS, MSS96, box and three ledgers]
- Starobin, Robert S., ed. Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1998. [USA 973 AA28b]
Biography
- Phelps, Shirelle. Who's Who Among African Americans 1998-99. Detroit: Gale Research, 10th ed., 1997. [USA 973 AA62w]
- Salley, Columbus. The Black 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential African-Americans, Past and Present. New York: Citadel Press, 1993. [USA 973 AA34b]
Military
- Altoff, Gerard T. Amongst My Best Men: African-Americans and the War of 1812. Put-in-Bay, OH: The Perry Group, 1996. [USA 973 AA79a]
- Eggerton, Douglas R. Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. [VIRGINIA 975.5 AA26g]
- Gladstone, William A. United States Colored Troops 1863-1867. Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 1990. [USA 973 ML455u]
- McLellon, Waldron Murrill. Leather and Soul: A Civil War Odyssey. Fern Park, FL: Butternut Press, 1994. [USA 973 ML224l]
- Schubert, Frank N., ed. On the Trail of the Buffalo Soldier: Biographies of African Americans in the U.S. Army, 1866-1917. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1995. [USA 973 ML3o]
- White, David O. Connecticut's Black Soldiers 1775-1783. Chester, CT: Pequot Press, 1973. [CONNECTICUT 974.6 ML582c]
Local Resources - Ohio
- Auditor of State. Blacks Immigrating to Ohio 1861-1863, Special Enumeration. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society. [MICROFILM]
- Buchanan, James. The Blacks of Pickaway County, Ohio in the Nineteenth Century. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1988. [OHIO 977.1 PICKAWAY AA567b]
- Clay, Sheila J. Farmer. Black Legacy: African-Americans of Champaign County, Ohio, Vol. 1. Trotwood, OH: The Author, 1996. [OHIO 977.1 CHAMPAIGN AA561b]
- Clay, Sheila J. Farmer. Burial Records, G.F. Allen & Company, 15 Jan 1933 - 30 Oct 1967, Urbana, OH. Trotwood, OH: The Author, 1983. [OHIO 977.1 CHAMPAIGN AA916b]
- Clay, Sheila J. Farmer. Death Records (Blacks Only), Volume 1 & 2, Champaign Co., Ohio 1867-1909. Trotwood, OH: The Author, no date. [OHIO 977.1 CHAMPAIGN AA579d]
- Dabney, Wendell P. Cincinnati's Colored Citizens, Historical, Sociological and Biographical. Cincinnati: Dabney Publishing Company, 1926. [OHIO 977.1 HAMILTON AA112c]
- Fuller, Sara. The Ohio Black History Guide. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1975. [OHIO 977.1 AA958o]
- Haller, Stephen E. Registers of Blacks in the Miami Valley: A Name Abstract (1804-1857). Dayton, OH: Wright State University, 1977. [OHIO 977.1 AA153r]
- Nitchman, Paul E. Blacks in Ohio, 1880. 10 vols. Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1985- 1987. Mansfield, OH: Ohio Genealogical Society, 1996. [OHIO 977.1 AA638b]
- Norwalk Negroes, Pioneer Days to 1967. Norwalk, OH: Norwalk Committee for Human Relations, 1967. [OHIO 977.1 HURON AA83n]
- Snider, Wayne L. Guernsey County's Black Pioneers, Patriots, and Persons. Columbus, OH: Ohio Historical Society, 1979. [OHIO 977.1 GUERNSEY AA32g]
- Turpin, Joan. Register of Black, Mulatto and Poor Persons in Four Counties 1791-1861 [Clinton, Highland, Logan & Ross Counties]. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1985. [OHIO 977.1 AA863r] [see MICROFILM also]
Other Sources
- African-Americans in the 1870 U.S. Federal Census. Heritage Quest, 2001. [COMPACT DISC -US 2 ½.]
- Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Clearfield Company, Inc., 1997. [N CAROLINA 975.6 AA364f]
- Ibrahim, Karen King, et al. Fauquier County, Virginia Register of Free Negroes 1817-1865. Midland, VA: Afro-American History Association of Fauquier, 1993. [VIRGINIA 975.5 FAUQUIER AA7f]
- Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. Washington DC. Current subscription. [USA PERIODICAL under "J"]
- Lakey, Othal Hawthorne. The History of the CME Church. Revised. Memphis, TN: CME Publishing House, 1996. [USA 973 CH149h]
- Latimer, Frances Bibbins. Instruments of Freedom: Deeds and Wills of Emancipation, Northampton County, Virginia 1782 to 1864. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1994. [VIRGINIA 975.5 NORTHAMPTON GN349i]
- Olwell, Robert. Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country 1740-1790. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. [S CAROLINA 975.7 AA9m]
- Tatum, Charles Edward. Shelby County: In the East Texas Hills. Austin, TX: Eakin Publications, Inc., 1984. [TEXAS 976.4 SHELBY HS189s]
- Williams, Bvenitta J. African-American Cemeteries, Anderson County, South Carolina. Mansfield, OH: Family History Services, 1997. [S CAROLINA 975.7 ANDERSON AA83a]
- Wynne, Frances Holloway. Register of Free Negroes and also of Dower Slaves, Brunswick County, Virginia 1803-1850. Fairfax, VA: The Author, 1983. [VIRGINIA 975.5 BRUNSWICK GN989r]
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