‘People’ Category
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Revisiting the Bossier massacre of 1868 according to the Freedmen’s Bureau
0February 23, 2015 by elhseven
Synopsis of Murders Committed in Parishes of Caddo and Bossier September and October 1868 according to the Freedmen’s Bureau investigation. …
keep readingCategory Events, People, Places | Tags: Alfred Hazen, Asmar Hollingsworth, Bossier Parish Militia, Charles Stokes, Charles Wasson, Democratic ticket, Frank Dupree, G. McAlley, George Fields, Henry Dixon, Henry Jones, Henry Williams, Jacob Willard, James Carter, John Adams, John Johnson, murder, N. Taylor, Nelson Logan, Peyton Ward, R. Matthews, Reuben White, Robert Gray, Shady Grove plantation, Solomon Thomas, Squire Jones, terrorism of blacks, voter intimidation, William Ewell, Willis Dickson
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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 …
keep readingCategory People, Places | Tags: Airy, Caddo Parish, Caddo Prairie, George Washington Hale, Hale, Robert Hamilton, slaveowners, Slaves
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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 …
keep readingCategory People | Tags: African American History, blacks, Greenwood Louisiana, McCain Plantation, Newton Smith, Newton Smith Elementary School
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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 …
keep readingCategory 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
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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 …
keep readingCategory People | Tags: Caddo Parish, Desoto parish, Keachie, Lunn, runaway slave, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, Sam Van Bibber, William Spell
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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
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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 …
keep readingCategory People | Tags: African American History, Caddo Parish, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, slaveowners, slavery
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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 …
keep readingCategory People | Tags: 1850 Slave Census, Bossier parish, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW LA African American Genealogy, slaveowners, Slaves
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Goldpoint Plantation, NW Louisiana
1January 28, 2014 by elhseven
Goldpoint Plantation, Bossier, Parish The following includes a list of indentured servants from Goldpoint plantation. This 1857 conveyance record represents …
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