Barnette, Mic. “William Marshall of Baton Rouge and his Descendants.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 73:1 (March 1985). Call #: CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Brasseaux, Carl A. Creoles of Color in the Bayou Country. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1994. Call# F380.C87B73 1994.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Louisiana. Call# Microfilm 721. Of special interest: Reel 32 contains “reports of indigents” organized by parish. Early reports for African Americans give name of former owner and age. Reel 34 contains register of applications by freedmen for abandoned land.
-----. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Mississippi. Call# Microfilm 722. Marriage registers for Vicksburg, Davis Bend and Natchez (reel 42) contain numerous entries for Louisiana freedmen living in parishes across the Mississippi River from these locations.
-----. Records of the Freedmen’s Hospital and New Orleans Area Field Office of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands 1865-1869. Call# Microfilm 918. Field office records for Iberville, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, and West Baton Rouge Parishes.
Burton, Willie. On the Black Side of Shreveport. Author, 1983. Call# F379.S4B8. Contains much biographical information.
Davis, Edwin Adams. Plantation Life in the Florida Parishes of Louisiana 1836-1846 as Reflected in the Diary of Bennet H. Barrow. New York: Columbia University, 1943. Includes slave records of this West Feliciana Parish planter covering the years 1831-1845. Call# R5183.18 (volume 9).
DeVille, Winston. Slaves and Masters of Pointe Coupe, Louisiana. A Calendar of Civil Records 1762-1823. Ville Platte, La.: DeVille, 1988. Call #: fF377.P55D42 1988.
Freedmen's Bureau Online: Louisiana (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 710. Indexes for the New Orleans and Shreveport offices on reel 12.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call# Microfilm 709. Records for New Orleans and Shreveport on reel 3. These records are indexed by Freedman's Bank Records. Call # CD-ROM E185.6 F844 2000. (Ask at Genealogy Desk for this item.)
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1699-1860. [computer file]. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. Available online.
Hebert, Donald J. Southwest Louisiana Records: Church and Civil Records. Baton Rouge, La.: Claitor’s, 1973-1984. Call# F368.H42 (2nd floor open shelf). Multi-volume series. Records concerning blacks, especially free blacks, are scattered throughout; however, volume 2, pp. xii-xx; volume 3, pp. 684-694; and volume 33, pp. 106-307 should be of special interest.
Knight, Carol Young. First Settlers of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana 1808-1839. Aledo, Texas: Knight, 1983. Call# fF377.C3K56 1983. Primarily records for the sale of land and slaves, who are usually referred to by name.
Louisiana Mortality Schedules 1850-1880. Call# Microfilm 739.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. “de Mezieres-Trichel-Grappe: A Study of a Tri-caste Lineage in the Old South.” The Genealogist 6:1 (Spring 1985). Call# CS1.G393.
“Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 70:3 (September 1982). Call# CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Herbert, Donald J. Southwest Louisiana Records: Church and Civil Records. Baton Rouge, La.: Claitor’s, 1973-1984. Call# F368.H42 (2nd floor open shelf). Multi-volume series. Records concerning blacks, especially free blacks, are scattered throughout; however, volume 2, pp. xii-xx; volume 3, pp. 684-694; and volume 33, pp. 106-307 should be of special interest.
Knight, Carol Young. First Settlers of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana 1808-1839. Aledo, Texas: Knight, 1983. Call# f377.C3K56 1983. Primarily records for the sale of land and slaves, who are usually referred to by name.
Louisiana Mortality Schedules 1850-1880. Call# Microfilm 739.
Mills, Elizabeth Shown. “de Mezieres-Trichel-Grappe: A Study of Tri-caste Lineage in the Old South.” The Genealogist 6:1 (Spring 1985). Call # CS1.G393.
“Slaves and Masters: The Louisiana Metoyers.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 70:3 (September 1982). Call# CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Stampp, Kenneth (editor). Records of the Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Call # Microfilm 708. See entry for this title on page six. Entries below list of families whose records contain significant slave data, followed by parish of residence and reel number where records begin.
| Name | Parish | Reel Number |
| Aime | St. James | H.1 |
| Blanche | Tensas | I.3.14 |
| Bruce | St. James, E. Carroll | I.1.9 |
| Coiron | Plaquemines | H.1 |
| Colomb | St. James | H.20 |
| Conner | Concordia | I.3.14 |
| Durnford | Plaquemines | H.13 |
| Evans | W. Feliciana, St. Mary | !.2.1 |
| Farrar | Catahoula | I.3.6 |
| Kenner | St. Charles | I.1.5 |
| Ascension | I.1.13 | |
| Kleinpeter | Iberville | I.1.9 |
| Knight | Tensas | F.1.2 |
| Lanaux | Plaquemines, St. Bernard | I.1.11 |
| LeBlanc | Iberville | I.2.17 |
| Ledoux | Iberville (?) | I.1.9 |
| Mandeville | Catahoula | I.3.3 |
| Marigny | Plaquemines | H.1 |
| Mathews | W. Feliciana, Lafourche, Rapides | I.2.14 |
| McCall | Tensas | F.1.4 |
| McCutcheon | St. Charles, Plaquemines | I.1.5 |
| McDonogh | Jefferson, St. Bernard, New Orleans | H.3 |
| McKnight | Natchitoches | I.2.19 |
| Meuillion | St. Landry | H.13 |
| Norwood | E. Feliciana | I.2.12 |
| Nutt | Madison | F.1.1 |
| Palfrey | St. Mary, St. Martin | I.1.1 |
| Preston | Ascension | I.1.13 |
| Pugh | Assumption | G.1.1 |
| Randolph | Iberville | I.1.14 |
| Robinson | Red River | I.2.20 |
| Ross | Plaquemines | H.1 |
| Seddon | St. James, E. Carroll | I.1.9 |
| Stackhouse | Plaquemines | H.1 |
| Stirling | W. Feliciana, W. Baton Rouge, St. Mary | I.2.21 |
| Wilkins | St. James, E. Carroll | I.1.9 |
(Also “Airlie” and “Canebrake” plantations in E. Carroll on G.1.11.)
Stephenson, Wendell Holmes. Isaac Franklin: Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South with Plantation Records. University, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1938. Call # E5.F858777. Contains extensive slave records from Franklin’s plantation in West Feliciana Parish during the years 1846-1850.
Xavier University. Guide to the Heartman Manuscripts on Slavery. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1982. Call # foZ6621.X38H4. A guide and calendar to the Heartman collection on slavery, housed at Xavier University, New Orleans. Bills of sale and other documents pertaining to slaves, as well as materials concerning free blacks (primarily in Louisiana) are described. Thorough indexing.