Early Settlers of Caddo Prairie Community
0March 23, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
The author of the excerpt below has written a thorough glimpse into the life of their early ancestors, the Hale …
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Category People, Places | Tags: Agnes Hale Hawkins, Caddo Prairie, Caddo Prairie Missionary Baptist Church, Elizabeth Carter Golihar, George Washington Hale, Geraldine Stanberry Hitchcock, Hale, LA, Richard Allen Hale, Robert Hamilton, swamp fever, Whisenhunt, Wynn family
Lunn got away!
0February 23, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
Despite the danger, we continued to run towards freedom. We ran and joined the union troops, we ran towards Texas …
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Category People | Tags: Caddo Parish, Desoto parish, Keachie, Lunn, runaway slave, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, Sam Van Bibber, William Spell
Runaway slave advertisement by Mary D. Cane Alexander
0February 23, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
Advertisement source: The South-western. (Shreveport, La.), 20 Sept. 1854. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016483/1854-09-20/ed-1/seq-3/>
Category People | Tags: 1854, Caddo Parish, Mary D. Cane Alexander, plantations in Northwest Louisiana, runaway slave, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, slavery, Smith
1850 Caddo Parish Slave Census
0February 23, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
The 1850 U.S. Federal Slave Schedule for Caddo Parish reported 5,763 slaves with 466 slaveowners. There are some slaveowners missing …
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Category People | Tags: African American History, Caddo Parish, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, slaveowners, slavery
1850 Bossier Parish Slave Census
0February 18, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
The 1850 U.S. Federal Slave Schedule for Bossier Parish reported 4,396 slaves with 295 slaveowners. There are some slaveowners missing …
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Category People | Tags: 1850 Slave Census, Bossier parish, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, slaveowners, Slaves
Buckhall Plantation, Bossier Parish
0February 16, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
According to the Volume 4, page 112 of the 1856 Land Partition of Paulina DeGraffenried Gilmer & James Gilmer, Buckhall …
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Category Places | Tags: Albert Mitchell, Alexander Roft, Bill Barton, Bob Jenkins, Bossier parish, Buckhall Plantation, Charles Pemberton, Charley Allen, Frank Graham, George Jenkin, George Lijan, George William, Henry Morse, Jake Burnham, James Gilmer, Jim Shumaker, John Bogart, Judy Hitt, Mark Batemon, Ned Haywood, Phillis Williams, Red River Sankofa Project, Richard Payne, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, Slaves, Sol Reid
Hurricane Bluff Plantation, Bossier Parish
0February 16, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
This 2,285 acre plantation, valued at $138,045 in 1857 was initially given to John Pickett Jr. as a part of …
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Category Places | Tags: Bossier parish, Hurricane Bluff Baptist Church, Hurricane Bluff Plantation, James B. Gilmer, James Belton Pickett Sr, Paulina deGraffenried Pickett, Peter Pickett, Peter Sharp, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy
Outrage in Caddo – Three Colored Men Murdered in 1869
0February 16, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
I stumbled across this editorial recently which was reprinted in the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, (Milwaukee, WI) on Wednesday, February 10, …
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Category Events | Tags: 1869, Caddo Gazette, Caddo Parish, Edward's Place Plantation, Hate crime in Caddo parish, Mr. Wharton, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, three negro men murdered in Caddo
Before we were Democrats…
0February 1, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
Newly freed slaves and slave descendants began heavily voting the Republican ticket from 1865 – 1868 electing Republican politicians who …
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Category Events | Tags: African American History, Bossier Riot, C.C. Antoine, Caddo Parish, Gilles Vandal, hate crimes, land ownership, Oscar J. Dunn, Pickney B.S. Pinchback, Reconstruction in Louisiana, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, Rural NW Louisiana, William G. Brown
Goldpoint Plantation, NW Louisiana
0January 28, 2014 by Erica Hubbard
Goldpoint Plantation, Bossier, Parish The following includes a list of indentured servants from Goldpoint plantation. This 1857 conveyance record represents …
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Category People, Places | Tags: "NO LAND...ONLY SLAVES!" Volume 1, African American genealogy, Bossier parish, Goldpoint Plantation, James Belton Pickett Jr., Jerry Whitehat, Jim Bebows, Jim Buck, Jim Hickory, John Guthridge, John Pierce, Mary Knox, Red River Baptist Church, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, Seaborn Bradford, Slaves
