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
Buckhall Plantation, Bossier Parish
0February 16, 2014 by elhseven
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 elhseven
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 elhseven
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 elhseven
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
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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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
Hettie Adger Cemetery/St. Paul CME Church
0January 18, 2014 by elhseven
I continue to tell people sometimes the only evidence of one’s existence is found in a graveyard. If you are …
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Category Places | Tags: African American genealogy, African American History, Belcher, Caddo Parish, Carolina Bluff CME Church, Dickson, Hettie Adger, Morris & Dickson Co., Plain Dealing, Rural NW Louisiana, Rush Point Plantation, Slaves, St. Paul CME Church
Some slave & freedmen records at Red River Baptist Church, Benton, LA
0January 11, 2014 by elhseven
Red River Baptist Church was started in 1849 in the Willow Chute community of Bossier parish with the following 13 …
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Category People, Places | Tags: Adline Pouncy, Andrew Williams, Benton, Bossier parish, Cashpoint Plantation, Dudley Curry, Edmund Talley, Goldpoint Plantation, James Belton Pickett Jr., James Harold Jones, Jane Curry, Jerry Tall, Jerry Whitehat, Jessey Brown, John Barrett, Julia Bell, LA, Louisa Hamilton, Mary Jackson, Matilda Curry, Moses Jackson, Mr. Arnold, Nancy Perrit, Peter Curry, R. Fordinham, Red Chute Plantation, Red River Baptist Church, Sam Morris, Thomas Hamilton, Toby Gilliad, William Perrit, Willowchute
Bossier Race Riots of 1868
2January 3, 2014 by elhseven
The following excerpt was taken from Burton, Wilie. (1993). On the Black Side of Shreveport: A History (2nd edition.) The …
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Category Events | Tags: 1868, black soldiers, blacks, Bossier parish, Bossier Riot, Calvin Haskell, homeland terrorism, Lousiana, negroes, Reconstruction, Willie Burton
