AFRICAN-AMERICAN GENEALOGICAL REFERENCE

SOURCES AT THE OHIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY LIBRARY

GENERATIONAL ACCOUNTS:

Ball, Edward. Slaves in the Family. New York: Farrar, Straus and Girioux, 1998. USA 973 AA21s

Ball, Edward. The Sweet Hell Inside: a Family History. New York, NY: William Morrow, 2001. FAMILY HISTORY

929.2 HARLESTON B21s

Broyard, Bliss. One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life – A Story of Race and Family Secrets. New York, NY: Little,

Brown and Company, 2007. FAMILY HISTORY 929.2 BROYARD B828o

Buckley, Gail Lumet. The Hornes: an American Family. New York, NY: Knopf, 1986. FAMILY HISTORY 929.2

HORNE B856h

Cash, Malcolm. Sweet Home, a Family’s Journey. Lorain, OH: Ayanna Press, 2005. FAMILY HISTORY 929.2

CASH C268s

Clayton, Ralph. Cash for Blood: The Baltimore to New Orleans Domestic Slave Trade. Westminster, MD: Heritage

Books, 2007. USA 973 AA579c

Fears, Mary L. Jackson. Slave Ancestral Research, It’s Something Else: Supplement to the Jackson-Moore Family

History and Genealogy. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1995. FAMILY HISTORY 929.2 McCRARY

F312s

Gordon-Reed, Annette. The Hemingses of Monticello: an American family. New York, NY: W. W. Norton &

Company, 2008. FAMILY HISTORY 929.2 HEMING R251h

Justus, Judith P. (Judith Price). Down From the Mountain: the Oral History of the Hemings Family – Are They the

Black Descendants of Thomas Jefferson? Perrysburg, OH: Jeskurtara, Inc., 1990. FAMILY HISTORY

929.2 HEMINGS J986d

Haley, Alex. Roots: The Saga of an American Family. New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1976. USA 973

AA137r

Lucas, Ernestine Garrett. Wider Windows to the Past: African-American History from a Family Perspective.

Decorah, IA: Anundsen Publishing Co., 1995. USA 973 AA962w

Reed, B. Bernetiae. The Slave Families of Thomas Jefferson: a Pictorial Study Book with an Interpretation of his

Farm Book in Genealogy Charts. Greensboro, NC: Sylvest-Sarah, Inc., 2007. 2 vol. USA 973 AA251s

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:

Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago, Inc. Family History, My Roots and Yours: 19th Annual

Family History Conference. Chicago, IL: Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society, Inc., 2001.

USA 973 AA85a

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

Chadwick, Bruce. Traveling the Underground Railroad: A Visitor’s Guide to More than 300 Sites. Secaucus, NJ:

Carol Publishing Group, 1999. USA 973 AA345t

Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice. New York, NY: Dell Publishing Co., Inc., 1971. USA 973 BG582s

Clem, Dee. Tracing African-American Roots. Las Vegas, NV: Gator Publishing, Inc., 1999. USA 973 AA59t

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Tracking African American Family History, pp. 575-588. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1997.

USA 973 GN84s [Reference Shelf]

Eltis, David, and David Richardson. Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

2010. AFRICA 960 EM83a

Eltis, David, and David Richardson. Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade

Database. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008. AFRICA 960 EM83e

FamilySearch. Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Part A, African American, 1870 to Present. Salt Lake City, UT:

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929.1 AA21q

Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives: Chapter 12 – Records of Black Americans, pp. 171-186.

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Henritze, Barbara K. Bibliographic Checklist of African American Newspapers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing

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Higginbotham, A. Leon. In the Matter of Color, Race and the American Legal Process: the Colonial Period. New

York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1978. USA 973 AA535i

Howell, Barbara Thompson. How to Trace Your African-American Roots: Discovering Your Unique History. New

York, NY: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1998. USA 973 AA839h

Hughes, Langston, and Milton Meltzer. A Pictorial History of the Negro in America. New York: Crown Publishers,

Inc., 1963. USA 973 AA874p

Hughes Wright, Roberta, and Wilbur B. Hughes III. Lay Down Body: Living History in African American

Cemeteries. Detroit, MI: Visible Ink Press, 1996. USA 973 AA935l

Hurt, R. Douglas. African American Life in the Rural South 1900-1950. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri

Press, 2003. USA 973 AA946a

Jackson, Florence. The Black Man in America 1791-1861: Illustrated with Photographs and Contemporary

Drawings. New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1971. USA 973 AA133b

Jackson, Florence. The Black Man in America 1877-1905: Illustrated with Photographs and Contemporary

Drawings. New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1973. USA 973 AA133b

Jackson, Florence. The Black Man in America 1905-1932: Illustrated with Photographs and Contemporary

Drawings. New York, NY: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1974. USA 973 AA133b

Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Washington DC. Current subscription. USA

PERIODICAL under “J”

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Meltzer, Milton. In Their Own Words, a History of the American Negro 1865-1916. New York, NY: Thomas Y.

Crowell Co., 1965. USA 973 AA496i

Meltzer, Milton. In Their Own Words, a History of the American Negro 1916-1966. New York, NY: Thomas Y.

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Miers, Earl Schenck. Story of the American Negro. New York, NY: Wonder Books, 1965. USA 973 AA586a

Miller, Randall M., and John David Smith. Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. USA

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New England Historic Genealogical Society. African American Resources at the New England Historic Genealogical

Society: A Selected Bibliography. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010. USA 973

AA449a

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Pinnick, Timothy N. Finding and Using African American Newspapers. Wyandotte, OK: Gregath Publishing Co.,

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Regosin, Elizabeth Ann. Freedom’s Promise: Ex-Slave Families and Citizenship in the Age of Emancipation.

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Room, Adrian. African Placenames: Origins and Meanings of the Names for Natural Features, Towns, Cities,

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Secret, Jeanette Braxton. Guide to Tracing your African Ameripean Civil War Ancestor. Bowie, MD: Heritage

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Simpson, Jack, and Matt Rutherford. A Bibliography of African American Family History at the Newberry Library.

Chicago, IL: The Newberry Library, 2005. USA 973 AA58b

Smead, Howard. The Afro-Americans. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989. USA 973 EM39

Smith, Franklin Carter, and Emily Anne Croom. A Genealogist’s Guide to Discovering Your African-American

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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

United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Black Studies: a Select Catalog of National Archives

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Witcher, Curt Bryan. African American Genealogy: A Bibliography and Guide to Sources. Fort Wayne, IN: Round

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Witcher, Curt Bryan. Bibliography of Sources for Black Family History in the Allen County Public Library

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Woodtor, Dee Parmer. Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical

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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:

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Starobin, Robert S., ed. Blacks in Bondage: Letters of American Slaves. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1998.

USA 973 AA28b

BIOGRAPHY:

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the U.S. House of Representatives, by the Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House

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Phelps, Shirelle. Who’s Who Among African Americans 1998-99. Detroit: Gale Research, 10th ed., 1997. USA 973

AA62w

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York: Citadel Press, 1993. USA 973 AA34b

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973 AA62w

CENSUS:

Abrams, Alan. Black and Free, the Free Negro in America, 1830: A Commentary on Carter Woodson’s Free Negro

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AA425a

MILITARY:

Altoff, Gerard T. Amongst My Best Men: African-Americans and the War of 1812. Put-in-Bay, OH: The Perry

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Bilby, Joseph G. Freedom to All, New Jersey’s African-American Civil War Soldiers. Hightstown, NJ: Longstreet

House, 2011. NEW JERSEY 974.9 AA491f

Charles, Patrick J. Washington’s Decision, the Story of George Washington’s Decision to reaccept Black Enlistments

in the Continental Army, December 31, 1775. Booksurge.com, 2005. USA 973 AA38w

Clark, Peter H. The Black Brigade of Cincinnati, being a Report of its Labors and a Muster-Roll of its Members.

Cincinnati, OH: Joyseph B. Boyd, 1864. OHIO 977.1 ML263r

Coddington, Ronald S. African American Faces of the Civil War, an Album. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins

University Press, 2012.

Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861-1865. Lawrence, KS: University

Press of Kansas, 1987. USA 973 AA816s

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

Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle, the Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. Baton Rouge,

LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Gourdin, J. Raymond. 104th Infantry Regiment, USCT: Colored Civil War Soldier from South Carolina. Bowie, MD:

Heritage Books, 1997. SOUTH CAROLINA 975.7 AA742v

Grundset, Eric G. Forgotten Patriots, African American and American Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War: a

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Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1997. 2 vols. USA 973 AA493r

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Army life in a Black regiment. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. USA 973

ML685c

Hodges, Graham Russell. The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution.

New York, NY: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996. USA 973 AA665b

Ingram, E. Renee. In View of the Great Want of Labor: A Legislative History of African American Conscription in

the Confederacy. Westminster, MD: Willowbend Books, 1999. USA 973 AA4i

Jordan, Winthrop D. Tumult and Silence at Second Creek, an Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy. Revised ed.

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. MISSISSIPPI 976.2 ADAMS AA767t

Lardas, Mark. African American Soldier in the Civil War, USCT 1862-66. Westminster, MD: Osprey Publishing,

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Leckie, William H. The Buffalo Soldiers, a Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West. Norman, OK: University of

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Longacre, Edward G. A Regiment of Slaves: the 4th United States Colored Infantry 1863-1866. Mechanicsburg, PA:

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McLellon, Waldron Murrill. Leather and Soul: A Civil War Odyssey. Fern Park, FL: Butternut Press, 1994. USA 973

ML224l

McPherson, James M. The Negro’s Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union.

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Overmountain Press, 1997. TENNESSEE 976.8 SULLIVAN ML547b

Pybus, Cassandra. Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest

for Liberty. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006. USA 973 AA989e

Research History Class, Washington High School. Ohio’s African American Civil War Heritage: a Collection of

Essays by the Research History Classes 2000-2003, Washington High School, Washington Courthouse,

Ohio. Washington Courthouse, OH: Washington High School, 2003. OHIO 977.1 AA311o

Research History Class, Washington High School. William Anderson Post 244, Grand Army of the Republic. United

States Colored Troops, Washington Court House, Ohio 1882-1919. Washington Court House, OH:

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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

Secret, Jeanette Braxton. Guide to Tracing Your African Ameripean Civil War Ancestor. Bowie, MD: Heritage

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NORTH CAROLINA 975.6 AA64r

Smith, Gene A. The Slaves’ Gamble: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2013.

USA 973 AA57s

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ML582c

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Ohio. Chesterhill, OH: Multicultural Genealogical Center, 2004. OHIO 977.1 ATHENS AA17s

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disc]. Cleveland, OH: African-American Genealogical Society, 2008. OHIO 977.1 CUYAHOGA AA83c

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AA21d

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Hilliard, Loretta Robinson. A History of Notable African-Americans, Richland County, Ohio. Mansfield, OH: Loretta

Hilliard, 2001. OHIO 977.1 RICHLAND AA558h

House-Soremekun, Bessie. Confronting the Odds: African American Entrepreneurship in Cleveland, Ohio. Kent,

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of Ohio. St. Clairsville, OH: Cumberland Trail Genealogical Society, 2008. OHIO 977.1 BELMONT

AA582a

Middleton, Stephen. The Black Laws: Race and the Legal Process in Early Ohio. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press,

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WARREN AA182w

Pelster, Mae. Abolitionists, Copperheads and Colonizers in Hudson & the Western Reserve. Charleston, SC: The

History Press, 2011. OHIO 977.1 SUMMIT AA367a

Phillips, Kimberley L. AlabamaNorth: African-American Migrants, Community, and Working-Class Activism in

Cleveland, 1915-45. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. OHIO 977.1 CUYAHOGA AA544a

Polley, Eva Louise. African American Life in Franklin, Ohio. Penmore Lithographers, 2014. OHIO 977.1 WARREN

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American Affairs, 2001. OHIO 977.1 COLUMBIANA AA799p

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The above sources are all found at The Ohio Genealogical Society, 611 State Route 97 W, Bellville OH 44813, which

is open Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Membership $40.00 at www.ogs.org

[Updated 2019 - Tom Neel, Librarian]