[Alabama State Census for 1866.] Call # Microfilm 983. Specify county on call slip. Despite its limitations, this source can be especially important for African American researchers, given its closeness to emancipation. Researchers should note that the schedules are segregated and that localities within a given county are often unspecified. Only heads of household are listed by name. Several counties not included—consult the entry for this item on the computer catalog for list of counties.
Barefield, Marilyn Davis. Alabama Mortality Schedules 1860. Easley, C.S.: Southern Historical Press, c1987. Call # F325.B35 (2nd floor open shelf). The introduction contains a brief but helpful discussion of the enumeration of slave deaths.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Alabama. Call # Microfilm 719.
Freedmen's Bureau Online: Alabama (website). This site contains a number of indexes and transcriptions of documents from the Freedmen's Bureau records.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Deposit Ledger Indexes. Call # Microfilm 709. Huntsville branch on reel 1.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call # Microfilm 709. Records for Huntsville on reel 1 (see also Rathbun below). Those for Mobile on reel 2. These records are indexed by Freedman's Bank Records. Call # CD-ROM E185.6 F844 2000. (Ask at Genealogy Desk for this item.)
Hahn, Marilyn Davis (compiler). Alabama Mortality Schedules 1850. Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical. Press, C1983. Call # F325.B355 1983 (2nd floor open shelf).
Hester, Gwendolyn L. Freedmen and Colored Marriage Records 1865-1890, Sumter County, Alabama. Baltimore: Heritage Books, 1996. Call# Folio F332.S8 H47 1996.
McFadden, Anntoinette S. "Uncovering Post and Pre Civil War Slave Ancestral Surname Changes in Alabama and Virginia - Part I: Alabama." JAAHGS 19:2 (Fall 2000) Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Mills, Gary B. "Free African Americans in Pre-Civil War 'Anglo' Alabama: Slave Manumissions Gleaned from County Court Records." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 83:2 (June 1995). Call# CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Nordmann, Christopher. "Some African Americans Listed in Mobile, Alabama City Directories 1837-1839, 1842, 1844." JAAHGS 19:2 (Fall 2000) Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Pinkard, Ophelia T. “Blacks Named Wallace in the Federal Census for 1880 and 1900, Shelby County, Alabama.: JAAHGS 6:4 (Winter 1985). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
-----. Descendants of Shandy Wesley Jones and Evalina Love Jones: The Story of an African American Family of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Baltimore: Gateway, 1993. Call# Folio CS71.J76 1993.
“The Life and Times of Shandy Wesley Jones and Other Freedmen of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.” JAAHGS 12:3/4 (fall/winter, 1991). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Rathbun, Fred Charles. Names from Huntsville, Alabama 1865-1869 as Recorded in Registers of Signatures of Depositors in the Hntsville Branch Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, Accounts 1-385. Littleton, Colorado: Rathbun, 1986. Call # fF334.H9R37.
Names from Huntsville, Alabama II, 1870 as Recorded in Registers of Signatures of Depositors in the Huntsville Branch, Greedmen’s Savings and Trust Company, Accounts 386-791. Littleton, Colorado: Rathbun, 1988. Call # fF334.H9R372.
Stampp, Kenneth (editor). Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations. Call # Microfilm 708. See entry for this title on page six. Entries below list families whose records contain significant slave data, followed by county and reel number where records begin.
| Name | County | Reel Number |
| Bruce | Marengo | E.3.7 |
| Clark | Sumter | F.3.1 |
| Clay | Madison | F.1.18 |
| Devereux | Covington, Macon | G.1.36 |
| Gee | Wilcox | F.1.22 |
| Gilliam | Green, Marengo | E.2.19 |
| Gilliland | Wilcox | F.1.8 |
| Harrison | Pickens | E.1.36 |
| Reavis | Sumter | C.2.1 |
| Seddon | Marengo | E.3.7 |
| Tarry | Marengo | F.1.9 |
| Tayloe | Perry, Sumter, Green | E.1.3 |
| Watson | Greene (Hale) | F.1.9 |
| Williams | Marengo | E.3.7 |
Woodtor, Dee Parmer. "A Genealogical Sketch of Charlotte Nix (1805?-1895)." JAAHGS 14:3/4 (1995). Call # CS.A37 (2nd floor open shelf). Russell and Butler Counties with roots back to North Carolina.