{"id":19,"date":"2016-02-28T22:18:14","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2020-03-25T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T05:23:27","slug":"slavery-and-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/east-carroll-parish-genealogy-resources\/slavery-and-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Slavery and Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Records from USGenWeb<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/usgwarchives.net\/la\/eastcarroll\/deeds.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Selected Conveyances\/Deeds and Abstracts of Slave Sales<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/usgwarchives.net\/la\/eastcarroll\/court.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Selected Court Records<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/usgwarchives.net\/la\/eastcarroll\/wills.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Selected Wills and Successions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>(East) Carroll Parish Plantations and Slave Owners<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sankofagen.pbworks.com\/Louisiana#CARROLL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sankofagen <\/a>&#8211; Listing of Plantations and Plantation Owners in the Parish<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150321023941\/http:\/\/sankofagen.pbworks.com\/Louisiana#CARROLL\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you know the name of the slaveholder, but need documentation to verify ownership of your ancestor, you&#8217;ll have to use microfilm or records onsite at the East Carroll Parish Clerk of Court.\u00a0 For information on what&#8217;s available, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/?page_id=17\">Genealogy Research in East Carroll Parish<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Selected Records From M1905, Lake Providence Field Office Freedmens Bureau Records, National Archives and Records Administration<\/h3>\n<p>These records are key to tracing one&#8217;s ancestors immediately following the Civl War and during Reconstruction. \u00a0Contracts and agreements were established between former slaveowners or landowners and former slaves to ensure that the former slaves or freedman were paid for their work. \u00a0Sometimes the freedman stayed at the plantation that they were enslaved on, other times they worked for other former owners or new land owners in the area. Other records include letters and correspondence, applications for rations, lists of indigent people, and more.\u00a0 Indexes do not exist for most of the rolls of microfilm in this collection and the lists below are not all inclusive of what is on each roll.\u00a0 For more on the Freedman&#8217;s Bureau, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/research\/microfilm\/m1905.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the National Archives website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atlasfamily.org\/2010\/03\/m1905-roll-33-east-carroll-parish-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M1905, Roll 33<\/a><br \/>\nRegisters and Payrolls of Freedmen Employed on Plantations, Assumption and Carroll ParishesUnbound registers and payrolls of freedmen employed on plantations, 1864\u201368, are\u00a0arranged alphabetically by parish. The registers give the names, ages, sex, and class\u00a0of the laborer; names of former owners; and former residences of freedmen. The\u00a0payrolls give similar information except that they include the freedmen\u2019s monthly\u00a0wages, the number of days worked, amount of money received, and signatures or\u00a0\u201cX.\u201d 1866 &#8211; Carroll Parish, LA (Listing of plantations and owners during the year 1866; some 1867)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atlasfamily.org\/2010\/03\/m1905-roll-42-freedmans-bureau-records.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M1905, Roll 42<\/a> <em>Labor Contracts\u00a0(Agreements with Freedmen),\u00a0 Caldwell and Carroll Parishes <\/em><br \/>\nUnbound labor contracts (\u201cagreements with freedmen\u201d), 1864\u201368, are arranged\u00a0alphabetically by parish.\u00a0 1866-1868 &#8211; Carroll Parish, LA<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atlasfamily.org\/2010\/03\/m1905-roll-81-lake-providence-field.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M1905, Roll 81<\/a> The\u00a0 four\u00a0 volumes of letters sent, February 1866\u2013December 1868, 1 (310), 2 (311), 3 (312), and 4 (313), are arranged chronologically, and each volume has a\u00a0name index. The last letters in volume 1 (310) are duplicated in volume 2 (311).Volume 1 (310) Feb. 1866\u2013Apr. 1867<br \/>\nVolume 2 (311) Jan. 1867\u2013Sept. 1867<br \/>\nVolume 3 (312) Sept. 1867\u2013Apr. 1868<br \/>\nVolume 4 (313) Apr. \u2013Dec. 1868<\/p>\n<p><em>Letters and Orders Received from\u00a0the Assistant Commissioner and His Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The three volumes of letters and orders received from the Assistant Commissioner\u00a0and his staff, January 1866\u2013December 1868, 1 (305), 2 (307), and 3 (309), are\u00a0arranged chronologically and each volume has a name index.<\/p>\n<p>Volume 1 (305) Jan.\u2013Dec. 1866<br \/>\nVolume 2 (307) Jan.1867\u2013June 1868<br \/>\nVolume 3 (309) June\u2013Dec. 1868<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atlasfamily.org\/2010\/03\/m1905-roll-82-lake-providence-field.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M1905, Roll 82<\/a> <em>Land Reports<\/em>, Unbound land reports, February\u2013September 1866, are arranged chronologically. Feb.\u2013Sept. 1866<em>Monthly Reports of Destitutes<\/em>, Unbound monthly reports of destitutes, May 1867\u2013July 1868, are arranged\u00a0chronologically. \u00a0May 1867\u2013July 1868\n<p><em>Records Relating to Court Cases<\/em>, Unbound records relating to court cases, February 1866\u2013March 1867, are arranged\u00a0by type of record. Included are complaints, affidavits, trials, powers of attorney,\u00a0paroles, and leases.\u00a0\u00a0Feb. 1866\u2013Mar. 1867<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.atlasfamily.org\/2010\/03\/m1905-roll-83-lake-providence-field.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">M1905, Roll 83 <\/a><em>Unbound indentures<\/em>, March 1866\u2013May 1868, are arranged chronologically. \u00a0Mar. 1866\u2013May 1868<em>Applications for Rations<\/em>,\u00a0Unbound applications for rations, March 1867\u2013July 1868, are arranged\u00a0chronologically. \u00a0Mar. 1867\u2013July 1868<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records from USGenWeb Selected Conveyances\/Deeds and Abstracts of Slave Sales Selected Court Records Selected Wills and Successions (East) Carroll Parish Plantations and Slave Owners Sankofagen &#8211; Listing of Plantations and Plantation Owners in the Parish If you know the name of the slaveholder, but need documentation to verify ownership of your ancestor, you&#8217;ll have to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/east-carroll-parish-genealogy-resources\/slavery-and-reconstruction\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Slavery and Reconstruction<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/1174"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atlasfamily.org\/dev16-rewrite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}