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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Texas. Call # Microfilm 724. Contents at the beginning of reel 1.

A Collection of Pages from the Histories of Neylandville and St. Paul School.. Neylandville, Texas: City of Neylandville, 1988. Call # fF394.N49C65 1988. Neylandville, Hunt County is a predominantly African American community.

Crouch, Barry A. and Larry Madras. “Reconstructing Black Families: Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Records” in Our Family, Our Town: Essays on Family and Local History Sources in the National Archives. Washington, D.C.: National Archives, 1987. Call #: Z1250.095 1987.

Devereaux, Linda Ericson. Nacogdoches County, Texas: The Black Marriages 1866-1874. [Nacogdoches, Texas: s.n., 1991?]. Call # fF392.N2D48 1991.

Freedmen's Bureau Online: Texas (Web site). This site contains a number of indexes and transcriptions of documents from the Freedmen's Bureau records.

Jones, Howard. The Red Diary: A Chronological History of Black Americans in Houston and some Neighboring Harris County Communities – 122 Years Later. Austin, Texas: Nortex, 1991. Call # F394.H8J66 1991.

Murray, Joyce Martin. Austin County, Texas Deed Abstracts: 1837-1852. Dallas: Murray, 1987. Call # Ayer F392.A9M87 (Special Collections). Does not contain as much slave data as does her Red River County volume (see below); however, this book does deserve mention since it, like the Red River volume, contains a slave name index.

-----. Red River County, Texas Deed Abstracts: Republic of Texas and State of Coahuila and Texas (Mixico). Dallas: Murray, 1986. Call # Ayer F392.R33M87 1986 (Special Collections). Extensive slave index.

Pemberton, Doris Hollis. Juneteenth at Comanche Crossing. Austin, Texas: Eakin, 1983. Call # F392.L5P45 1983. History of African Americans in Limestone County.

Prather, Patricia Smith. From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 1993. Call # Ayer F391.H79P73 (Special Collections). Both biographical and family information.

Stampp, Kenneth (editor). Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations. Call # Microfilm 708. See entry for this title on page six. Entries below list names of families whose records contain significant slave data, followed by county of residence and reel number.

Name County Reel Number
Blackshear  Grimes   G.1.44  
Billingsley   Falls  G.1.36  
Bolton  Wharton   G.1.33  
Devereux  Rusk  G.1.36  
Duncan  Wharton  G.1.33  
Hagerty  Marion, Harrison  G.1.42  
Hall  Houston   G.1.33  
Horton  Wharton, Matagorda  G.1.33  
Neblett  Grimes, Navarro  G.1.34  
Perry  Brazoria  G.1.12 
Rose   Victoria  G.1.31  
Tait  Colorado G.1.44  
Wright   Red River  G.1.42-44  

 

Smith, Gloria L. See entry for this author under North Carolina.

Texas Mortality Schedules 1850-1880. Call # Microfilm 737. See computer catalog for reel descriptions.

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