Arnold, Jonnie B. Index to 1860 Mortality Schedule of South Carolina. Greenville, S.C.: Arnold, 1982. Call # F268.A75. (2nd floor open shelf). Includes indexing for slaves, indicating names of owners if that information is present in the schedules.
Ball, Edward. "The Life of Angola Amy of Comingtee and Kensington Plantations South Carolina." JAAHGS 15:1 (1996). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf). Ball plantations.
Bell, Malcom (Jr). Major Butler’s Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family. Athens ,Georgia: University of Georgia, 1987. Call#; F290.B96B45 1987. Pierce Butler (1744-1822) had extensive plantation holdings in the South Carolina low country, as well as on individual slaves, among which an auction list and a section of short biographies of slaves and freedom.
Brynat , Lawerence C. (editor). Bryant supervised a series of biological compilations on South Carolina’s black legislators. Although there is a great deal of overlap among them, each continues unique entries. They are as follows:
-----. Negro Legislators in South Carolina 1865-1894; Preliminary Report. Orangeburg, S.C: South Carolina State College, 1966. Call # fF866.1402.
-----. Negro Legislators in South Carolina 1868-1902: Preliminary Report Number 4. Orangeburg, S.C: South Carolina State Collage, 1967. Call # fF866.1402.
-----. Negro Lawmakers in the South Carolina Legislature 1868-1902. Orangeburg, S.C: South Carolina State Collage, 1968. Call # fF866.1403.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abadoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for South Carolina. Call # Microfilm 714.
Cody, Cheryll Ann. Slave Demography and Family Formation: A Community Study of the Bell Family Plantations, 1720-1896. (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1982). Call # Microfilm 802. Although an academic dissertation with a demographic focus, this may be useful to the genealogist with slave ancestry on the Ball plantation both for the context it provides and the sources cited. A few slaves are mentioned by name, together with selected “ family reconstructions”.
-----. “There was no ‘Absalom’ on the Ball plantations: Slave-naming Practices in the South Carolina Low Country, 1720-1865.” American Historical Review 92:3 (June 1987). Call # A5.03373.
Easterby, J.H. (editor). The South Carolina Rice Plantation as Revealed in the Papers of Robert F.W Allston. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1945. Call # F866.252. Transcription of records of the Allstons of Georgetown District includes chapter on slave and freedom records.
Freedmen's Bureau Online: South Carolina (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 Beaufort and Charleston on reel 4.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call # Microfilm 709. Records for Charleston on reels 21-23. These records are indexed by Freedman's Bank Records. Call # CD-ROM E185.6 F844 2000. (Ask at Genealogy Desk for this item.)
Johnson, Micheal P. and James L. Roark. Black Masters: A free Family of Color in the Old South. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984. Call # f279.C49N43 1984. A study of the Ellison family of Charleston.
Koger, Larry. Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina 1790-1860. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1985. Call # F277.G6M23 1991.
Matthews, Harry Bradshaw. Killingsworth and Isaac the African: An Intercultural Saga. Gettysburg, Pa.: Gettysburg College and the Intercultural Resource Center, [1987?]. Call # fCS71.K4843 1987b.
McCuen, Anne K. Abstracts of Some Greenville County, South Carolina, Records Concerning Black People, Free and Slave. Spartansburg, S.C: Reprint Co., 1991. Call # F277.G6M23 1991.
Prince George Winyah Church (Charleston). Register. Call # Microfiche 608. Microfiche of baptismal and other records (beginning 1813) includes those for slaves. Microfiche of similar records for other Charleston churches are listed in this bibliography.
“Records Kept by Colonel Isaac Hayne.” South Carolina and Historical and Genealogical Magazine 12:1 (January 1911). Call # F886.828. This installment in a series of Hayne’s records contains vital records of slaves 1700-1781.
Rich, Peggy Burton and Marion Ard Whitehurst. The Pickens Sentinel: Favorite Newspaper of Pickens County: Pickens Court House, South Carolina, 1872-1893: Historical and Genealogical Abstracts. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994. Call# F277.P5 P52 1994.
Sheriff, G. Anne. Black History in Pickens District, South Carolina. Easley, S.C.: Forest Acres Elementary School, 1991. Call # E185.93.S7B53 1991.
South Carolina Archives. State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books Charleston South Carolina circa 1811-1860. Call # Microfilm 772. See also the guide to the microfilm publication by Juddith M. Brimelow (Call # Z1334.C47B75 1983)
South Carolina Historical Society. The Society has reproduced on microfilm a number of Low County church records. Slave baptism records, some quite detailed, are found in many of them. The following show particular promise:
Calvary Episcopal, Charleston (1848-1978). Call # Microfiche 651.
Christ Episcopal, Mount Pleasant , Charleston County (1645-1865). Call # Microfiche 569.
Georgetown Methodist Church (1811-1897). Call # Microfiche 569.
Holy Communion Episcopal, Charleston (1849-1913). Call # Microfiche 662.
Saint Andrew’s, Episcopal, Charleston (1719-1783). Call # Microfiche 665.
Saint Andrew’s, Charleston County (1714-1899). Call # Microfiche 619.
Saint Bartholomew’s, Colleton County (1818-1861). Call # Microfiche 619. See in particular “Rector’s Journal”.
Saint Helena’s, Episcopal, Beaufort County (1720-1830). Call # Microfiche 572.
Saint Micheal’s , Charleston (1751-1981). Call # Microfiche 619. See in particular “Trapier Register”.
Saint Peter’s, Charleaton (1834-1958) Call # Microfiche 677.
Saint Philip’s , Charleston (1713-1984). Call # Microfiche 679.
Saint Stephen’s , Charleston (1822-1880). Call # Microfiche 681.
Sheldon Church, McPhersonville , Hampton County (1825-1932). Call # Microfiche 644.
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.
| Name | County | Reel Number |
| Ayer | Barnwell | A.2.9 |
| Ball | Charleston | F.2.2 |
| Bryan | Edgefeild, Barnwell | A.2.2.0 |
| Coffin | Beaufort | B.9 |
| Coker | Darlington | A.2.3 |
| Colock | Beaufort | H.22 |
| Colhoun | Pendelton | A.2.13 |
| Cumming | Edgefield, Barnwell | A2.20 |
| Dabbs | Sumter | A.2.14 |
| DeSaussure | Kershaw | A.2.8 |
| Elmore | Spartanburg, York | A.2.26 |
| C.2.2 | ||
| Frost | Charleston, Georgetown | C.2.1 |
| Furman | Sumter | A.2.14 |
| F.2.9 | ||
| Gaillard | Charleston, Georgetown | B.5 |
| Sumter | A.2.1 | |
| Gilliland | Charleston | F.1.8 |
| Glover | Colleton | A.2.3 |
| Colleton, Charleston | B.10 | |
| Gourdin | Charleston, Georgetown | B.5 |
| Gramling | Orangeburg | A.2.26 |
| Gregory | Beaufort | C.2.1 |
| Hammond | Barnwell, Edgefield | A.1.1 |
| A.2.20 | ||
| Hampton | Richland | A.2.24 |
| Heyward | Colleton, Charleston | A.2.12 |
| Huger | Charleston | B.7 |
| Jordan | Horry, Kershaw | F.2.10 |
| Lance | Georgetown | A.2.11 |
| Law | Darlington | A.2.7 |
| Manigault | Charleston | F.2.4 |
| Means | Fairfield | A.2.4 |
| Miller | Sumter | A.2.14 |
| F.2.9 | ||
| Milliken | Charleston | B.8 |
| Milling | Fairfield | A.2.3 |
| Outzs | Edgefield | A.2.3 |
| Peyre | Charleston | B.5 |
| “Rockingham Plantation in Beaufort” | F.2.9 | |
| Sims | Union | F.2.9 |
| Sparkman | Georgetown | A.2.6 |
| Stapleton | Beaufort | A.2.6 |
| Sumter | Sumter | A.2.4 |
| Talbert | Edgefield | A.2.2 |
| Thomas | Fairfield | A.2.5 |
| Trezevant | Orangeburge | A.2.3 |
| Ward | Georgetown | B.9 |
| Webb |
Colleton |
B.9 |
| Weston | Georgetown | B.8 |
| White | Charleston | B.8 |
Vernon, Amelia Wallace. African Americans at Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1993. Call # F279.M326 V47.
Williams, Bvenitta J. African-American Cemeteries, Anderson County, South Carolina. Mansfield, OH: Family History Services, 1997. Call # Folio F277.A5 W55 1997.
Williams, Minnie Simons. A Colloquial History of a Black South Carolina Family Named Simons. [Washington, D.C.] : M.S. Williams, 1990. call # fCS71.S586 1990.
Wood, Virginia Steele. “Slaves at Rusticello Plantation, Pendleton, Anderson County, South Carolina: Births, Baptisms, Illnesses, Vaccinations, and Deaths.” JAAHGS 11:3 (Fall 1990). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).