Posts Tagged ‘Red River Sankofa Project’
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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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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 …
keep readingCategory 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
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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, …
keep readingCategory 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
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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 …
keep readingCategory 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
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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 …
keep readingCategory 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
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Something new
0January 27, 2013 by elhseven
What started off as simple pedigree chart back in 2004 grew into 10 years of unearthing and connecting, obvious, reluctant …
keep readingCategory Uncategorized | Tags: African American genealogy, Red River Sankofa Project, Rural NW Louisiana
