Texas – Louisiana – Missouri railroad connection
0October 26, 2014 by elhseven
Like many African American families, some of my folks who lived along Highway 71 got jobs as porters with Southern …
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What happened to George W. Hale’s slave, Airy?
0August 17, 2014 by elhseven
According to the Bureau of Land Management, George Washington Hale bought 477 acres between 1859 and 1860. A few years …
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Category People, Places | Tags: Airy, Caddo Parish, Caddo Prairie, George Washington Hale, Hale, Robert Hamilton, slaveowners, Slaves
Memorial Day
0May 26, 2014 by elhseven
I’m paying homage, in particular, to all of the African American gravestones of former soldiers who are buried in various …
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Category Places | Tags: African American soldiers burials, Belcher, Hettie Adger Cemetery, Highway 71, Isaac Bradford, St. Paul CME Church
Tiger Oil and Gas Corporation
0April 24, 2014 by elhseven
Burton, Willie. 1994. On the Black side of Shreveport: a history. 2nd edition, Shreveport, LA: s.n.]. Out of print
Category Places | Tags: African American History, Dr. E.L. Dickson, Dr. R.T. Nelson, LA, Louisiana, Miss Martha McClinton, Missouri K. West, Mr. F.W. WIlliams, Mr. M.J. Kennedy, Mr. William Jackson, Mrs, Mrs. G.E. Williams, oil & gas, Oil City, Shreveport, Tiger Oil and Gas Corporation
Newton Smith
0April 24, 2014 by elhseven
Excerpt taken from: Burton, Willie. 1994. On the Black side of Shreveport: a history. 2nd edition, Shreveport, LA: s.n.]. Out …
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Category People | Tags: African American History, blacks, Greenwood Louisiana, McCain Plantation, Newton Smith, Newton Smith Elementary School
Early Settlers of Caddo Prairie Community
0March 23, 2014 by elhseven
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 elhseven
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 elhseven
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 elhseven
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 elhseven
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
