African-American Family History Association. Slave Bills of Sale Project. Atlanta, Ga.: African-American Family History Association, 1986. Call # fE445.G3A5. Two volumes of abstracted and indexed Georgia bills of sale.
Alexander, Adele Logan. Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas, 1991. Call # E185.93G4A45 1991. Focuses on the Hunts of “Middle Georgia.”
Barksdale-Hall, R.C. “The Stevensons: An African-American Family in Slavery and Freedom.” JAAHGS 6:4 (Winter 1985). Call # CS1.A37 (LHF open shelf). A Coweta County family.
Bullard, Mary R. An Abandoned Black Settlement on Cumberland Island, Georgia. South Dartmouth, Mass.: Author, 1982. Call # F292.C94B84 1982. Includes transcriptions and analysis of census schedules, also a few genealogies and cemetery transcriptions.
Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island: Growth of a Planter. DeLeon Springs, Florida: Painter, 1986. Call # F292.C94S733 1986.
Bureau of Refugees, Freemen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner of Georgia. Call # Microfilm 717. Of special interest: Reel 36 contains land titles issued to freedmen, primarily in the Sea Islands. Abstracts and indexing for reel 13 found in Rathbun below.
Clifton, James M. (editor). Life and Labor on Argyle Island: Letters and Documents of a Savannah River Rice Plantation 1833-1867. Savannah, Ga.: Beehive, 1978. Call # F292.S3L53. Letters and other documents of the Manigault family include slave lists at Gowrie and Hermitage plantations.
Coweta County, Georgia Marriages 1827-1979. Newnan-Coweta Historical Society, 1980-1981. Call # fF292.C8C68. Notable for the inclusion of the African American registers, which is unfortunately relatively unusual for such publications. These are found in volume 2.
Fears, Mary L. Jackson. Slave Ancestral Research in Seven Steps within the Jackson-Moore Family History and Genealogy with Related Families Anderson, Ball, Bedgood, Brown, Cheatham, Denman, Ewing, Fears, Goins, Gray, Harrell, Holton, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, McCants, McCrary, Mansfield, Ray, Roberson/Robinson, Scott, Turner, Williams. Baltimore: Heritage Books, 1996. Call# Folio CS71.J13 1996.
Slave Ancestral Research: It's Something Else. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1995. Call# Folio E185.96F43 1995. A detailed case study narrative involving the records of Taylor, Talbot, Baldwin and Warren Counties. Surnames: McCants, McCrary, Riley. "Supplement to the Jackson-Moore family history and genealogy."
Freedmen's Bureau Online: Georgia (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 Index. Call # Microfilm 710. Indexes for the Augusta and Savannah branches on reel 2.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call # Microfilm 709. Records for Atlanta on reel 6, those for Augusta on reel 7, and those for Savannah branches on reels 8-10. These records are indexed by Freedman's Bank Records. Call # CD-ROM E185.6 F844 2000. (Ask at Genealogy Desk for this item.)
Georgia Mortality Schedules 1850-1880. Call # Microfilm 740.
House, Albert Virgil (editor). Planter Management and Capitalism in Ante-Bellum Georgia: The Journal of Hugh Fraser Grant, Ricegrower. New York: Columbia University, 1954. Call # R5183.18 (vol. 13). Plantation records from this Glynn County planter cover the years 1834-1861 and include slave lists and vital records.
Nordmann, Chris. “Georgia Registrations of Free People of Color, 1819.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 77:4 (December 1989). Call # CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Lunceford, Alvin Mell (Jr.). Taliaferro County, Georgia Records and Notes. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Company, 1988. Call # F292.T23L85. Especially noteworthy for African American genealogy with the inclusion of black marriage registers, the free black registry, and inclusion by name of slaves in will and deed abstracts.
Rathbun, Fred Charles. Names from Georgia, 1865-1866, Freedmen’s Bureau Letters, Roll 13. Littleton, Colorado: Rathbun, 1986. Call # fE185.93.G4R37.
Ray, David Thornton (ed.) Black Marriage Records, Hart County, Georgia: Vol. I 1866-1923. Hartwell, Ga.: Savannah River Valley Genealogical Society, 1994. Call # fF292.H6B53 1994.
Stampp, Kenneth. 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 of residence and reel number where records begin.
| Name | County | Reel Number |
| Butler | McIntosh | H.1 |
| Clinch | Camden | C.2.1 |
| Gibbons | Chatham | F.2.1 |
| Jones | Savannah | F.2.1 |
| Jones | Liberty, McIntosh | H.2.28 |
| Manigault | Chatham | F.2.4 |
See also “Slave import register” from Richmond County on F.2.1
Stewart, Roma Jones. Africans in Georgia, 1870. Chicago: Homeland Publications, 1993. Call # F285.S74 1993.
Thurmond, Michael L. A Story Untold: Black Men and Women in Athens History. Athens, Ga.: Clarke County School District, 1978. Call # F294.A7T4.
-----.“Registry of Free People of Colour, Columbia County Georgia.” JAAHGS 2:1 [1981]. Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Turner, Freda Reed. Henry County, Georgia 1821-1894: Marriages, Colored/Freedmen; Record of Sales, Inventory and Wills. Roswell, Georgia: Wolfe Publishing, 1995. Call # F292.H73T85.
Wagner, Clarence M. Profiles of Black Georgia Baptists. Altanta: Bennett, 1980. Call # BX6444.G4W33. Contains biographical information for local and state Baptist leaders.
Williams, Margo Lee. “Slave Inventory of Elisha Farnell [Pulaski County, Georgia].” JAAHGS 12:3/ 4 (Fall/Winter, 1991). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Willoughby, Mary Ann. "African American Cemeteries in Hancock County, Georgia. JAAHGS 20:2 (Fall 2001) Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
-----. "Colored Members of Bethel Baptist Church of the Washington Association, Hancock County, Georgia." JAAHGS 20:1 (Spring 2001) Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
Wynne, Holloway. "Slave Importation LIsts from Richmond County, Georgia, 1820-1821." JAAHGS 18:2 (Fall 1999) Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).