Very cool! Thanks for sharing this, MK!
Jeanne
I realize this doesn't directly involve GA - but it may help some
of our
researchers!
Rare list found that names N. C. slaves
WILLIAM L. HOLMES
Associated Press
RALEIGH - A renegade census taker charged with recording the population of
a
rural county in 1860 left behind a rare record of slave names.
The find by a state archivist researching his family background stunned
historians and genealogists who routinely find slaves listed only by
gender, age
and color -- black or mulatto. Listing the names of slaves violated
census
regulations of the time.
The handwritten Camden County record includes the first names of the
slaves
owned by each family. Under the entry for farmer A.P. Cherry, for
example,
Bell
listed the names of 16 slaves -- ranging from 55-year-old Moses to
3-month-old Enoch. The letter "S" is written beside each name on the
19-inch-by-15-inch
yellowed ledger paper, which has the header "Free
Inhabitants."
The names are not listed in the official federal index of the 1860 Census.
"We see a lot of things here at the archives, but there are very few
things
that
make us stop," said Earl Ijames, an archivist for the state
Department of
Cultural Resources.
MK Harrison
Ancestry.com
Barrow County, GA
Worth County, GA
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