Alford, Terry L. “Some Manumissions Recorded in the Adams County Deed Books in Chancery Clerk’s Office, Natchez, Mississippi, 1795-1835.” Journal of Mississippi History 33:1 (February 1981). Call # F874.004.
Archer, Chalmers. Growing Up Black in Rural Mississippi: Memories of Family, Heritage of a Place. New York: Walker, 1992. Call # F347.H6A73 1992. Archer family in Holmes County.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee. Call #: Microfilm 720. Reel 25 contains labor contracts for Bolivar County, Mississippi.
-----. Records for the Assistant Commissioner for Mississippi. Call # Microfilm 722. Indentures and marriages on reel 42. The marriages recorded here were performed during the years 1864 and 1865 in Vicksburg, Natchez, and Davis Bend. An extensive collection of freedmen labor contracts are found on reels 43-50. Unfortunately the order of their arrangements makes research difficult.
Craighead, Sandra G. "Index and Analysis of Mississippi Marriages Performed by Freedmen's Bureau Field Offices in 1865." Patricia Liddell Researchers News Journal 3:1 (January 1996). Call #: fCS1.P38 Covers 34 marriages, apparently in Brookhaven, Lincoln County.
"Deed of Emancipation of James Norris." Mississippi River Routes 1:2 (Winter 1993). Call # F347.M6M58. Bracken County, Kentucky indenture certified in Warren County in 1819.
Dimond, E. Grey & Herman Hattaway (editors). Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family's Correspondence 1846-1881. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Call # F347.C3L48. Watkins plantation in Carroll County included approximately 75 slaves, some of whom are mentioned in the correspondence.
"Early Jefferson County African Americans." Mississippi River Routes 1:3 (Spring 1994). Call # F347.M6M58.
Eddlemon, Sherida K. 1890 Genealogical Census Reconstruction, Mississippi Edition. Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 2002. Call # F340 .E33 2002.
Evans, W.A. “Free Negroes in Monroe County During Slavery.” Journal of Mississippi History 10:3 (January 1941). Call # F874.004. Contains a few references to individuals by name.
Freedmen's Bureau Online, Register of Marriages of Freedmen in Mississippi, (website).
"Freedmen's Marriage Records, Issaquena County, MS." Mississippi River Routes I:1 (Fall 1993). Call # F347.M6M58.
Freedman’s Saving and Trust Deposit Ledger Indexes. Call # Microfilm 710. Indexes for Natchez and Vicksburg records on reel 3.
Freedman’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call # Microfilm 709. Records for Columbus and Natchez on reel 14. Those for Vickburg on reel 15.
Genealogical Society of Utah. Microfilm copies of manuscript marriage records for the following counties:
Alcorn (old Tishomingo) 1866-1921 “colored registers.” Call # Microfilm 950.
Bolivar 1853-1920 “colored and white registers.” Call # Microfilm 953. 34
Clarke 1865-1919 “freedmen registers.” Call # Microfilm 949.
George 1910-1921 “colored registers.” Call # Microfilm 952.
Franklin 1871-1928 “colored registers.” Call # Microfilm 954.
Lauderdale 1870-1916 “marriage record, colored.” Call # Microfilm 978.
Griffith, Lucille (editor). “Notes and Documents: The Plantation Record Book of Brookdale Farm, Amite County, 1856-1857.” Journal of Mississippi History 7:1 (January 1945). Call # F874.004. Journal of the Reverend Hamiton McKnight contains no slave lists but contains frequent references to slaves by name.
Hamilton, William B. and William D. McCain. “Wealth in the Natchez Region: Inventories of the Estate of Charles Percy, 1794 and 1804.” Journal of Mississippi History 10:3 (July 1948). Call # F874.004. Includes slave lists.
Haymon, Serena Abbess. Amite County, Mississippi 1920 School Census (Black). Greenwood Springs, La.: Haymon, c1990. Call # fLC132.M5H395 1990.
-----. Amite County, Mississippi 1923 School Census (Black). Greenwood Springs, La.: Haymon, c1990. Call # fLC132. M5H396 1990.
-----Amite County, Mississippi 1924 School Census (Black). Baton Rouge, La.: F & M Enterprises, 1993. Call #: fLC132.M5H3987 1993.
-----. Amite County, Mississippi 1927 School Census (Black). Baton Rouge, La.: F & M Enterprises, [1989]. Call #: fLC132.M5H3988 1989.
-----. Amite County, Mississippi Cemeteries (African American). Baton Rouge, La.: F & M Enterprises, 1993. Call #: oF347.A5H39 1993.
Hermann, Janet Sharp. The Pursuit of a Dream. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. Call # F349.D38H47. Story of the Montgomery family. Benjamin Montgomery was a slave of Joseph Davis (brother of Jefferson Davis) and acquired plantation land from his former owner at Davis Bend, Warren County following the war. Montgomery's son Isaiah established a colony at Mound Bayou in Bolivar County in the 1880s.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Mississippi Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts Index. Call # Microfiche 2588. Indexes to reel and microfilm counter number (applicable only to a few microfilm readers).
Mississippi Index (Soundex) to Marriages Prior to 1926 (Mixed Colors). Call# Microfilm 773. Call slip should indicate soundex code.
"Nancy Watts' Will: A Free Woman of Colour." Mississippi River Routes I:1 (Fall 1993). Call # F347.M6 58. Claiborne County resident.
“Oldham Slave Case: Correspondence and Documents.” Call # Case Mc H5836.6438 (Special Collections). Manuscripts dates 1857-1860 concerning the emancipation of two slaves named Syrene and Emeline by their owner, James Oldham of Coahoma County.
Phillips, Mark A. Alexander Davis and Della Watkins: The Story of One Black Couple from Mississippi with Note on Some of their Descendants. [Houston, Texas?]: Phillips, 1988. Call # fCS1. D26 1988.
Riley, Franklin L. (editor). “Diary of a Mississippi Planter, January 1, 1840 to April, 1863.” Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, volume 10 (1909). Call # F874.58. Diary of Dr. Martin W. Philips of Hinds County includes references to his slaves. Births and deaths frequently noted.
Sewell, George A. and Margaret L. Dwight. Mississippi Black History Makers. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1984. Call # E185.93.M6S48 1984. Extensive biographical compendium of prominent African Americans.
“Slave Manifest 1833.” Natchez connection. See under District of Columbia.
Stampp, Kenneth (editor). Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations. Call # Microfilm 708. See the 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 |
| Conner | Adams | I.3.14 |
| Evans | Wilkinson | I.2.1 |
| Everett | Amite | H.27 |
| Farrar | Adams | I.3.6 |
| Gillespie | Adams | I.3.13 |
| Jaynes | Rankin | F.1.1 |
| Jordan | Lowndes | F.2.10 |
| Knight | Adams | F.1.2 |
| Macrery | Adams | I.3.10 |
| Mandeville | Adams | I.3.3 |
| McCall | Claiborne | F.1.4 |
| McLaurin | Covington | F.1.5 |
| Mercer | Adams | I.3.1 |
| Nutt | Adams | F.1.1 |
| Pinson | Wilkinson | I.2.13 |
| Powell | Hinds | F.1.8 |
| Sheppard | Copiah | F.1.22 |
Strong-Eldridge, Thelma. "Copiah County, Mississippi Colored Voters 1891-1908." Patricia Liddell Researchers News Journal 1:3 (Spring 1994). Call # fCS1.P38.
Terry, Brenda. Slaves I. Claiborne County, Mississippi. Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1995. Call # oF340.T47 1995. Note: Claiborne County researchers would also do well to consult the Freedmen's Bureau marriage registers for Davis Bend (call # Microfilm 722, reel 42). Also Freedman's Savings and Trust Signature Books (call # Microfilm 709, reel 15).
Thompson, Julius E. The Black Press in Mississippi 1865-1985. A Directory. West Cornwall, Connecticut: Locust Hill Press, 1988. Call # oZ1361.N39T52. Bibliographic listings arranged by county of publication. Holding information is provided, although in all too many cases apparently no extant copies have survived. In other instances the only extant copies are in private hands.
Wiltshire, Betty Couch. Carroll County, Mississsippi Estate Records: 1840-1869 with Freedman Apprenticeships. Carrollton, MS: Pioneer Pub. Co., 1997. Call # F347.C3 W56 1997.
ADDENDUM. The state of Mississippi mandated the enumeration of educable children. These special school censuses can have great genealogical value. Several have been published and are consequently held by Newberry. Although not solely concerned with African Americans, their research value warrants their inclusion in this bibliography.
Enumeration of Educable Children, Lauderdale County, Mississippi School Census, 1885, White and Black. Meridian, Mississippi: Lauderdale County Dept. of Archives and History, 1987. Call # fF347.L3E59.
Fox, Louise C. Educable Children, Tate County, Mississippi 1894. Senatobia, Mississippi, Tate County, Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Society, [1987?]. Call # fF347.T35E396.
Jackson County, Mississippi School Census 1912. Ocean Springs Genealogical Society, 1989. Call # fF347.J3J33 1989.
Smith, Rebecca Haas. Educable Children, Tate County, Mississipi, 1892. Senatobia, Mississippi: Tate County Mississippi Genealogical and Historical Society, 1897. Call # fF347. T35E394.