The profiles in this project may be incomplete. It's all we know at this time.

Naming conventions

Also see: Naming Conventions of US Slaves.

• First name: Ned
• Middle name: (blank)
• Last name: (blank)
• Birth surname: (blank)
• Display name: Ned, slave of Agnes Witt
• Also known as: List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, Ned the slave of Fred Ugly
• About: Any other information that may be helpfull to other researchers
• Sources: All sources should be uploaded to the profile so other researchers can see it
• Ethnicity: "Black" or "Mulatto" etc (as per source)
• Occupation: Job title if known EX.. Worked in Main House, Farmer, Cotton Picker

A Note on Documenting Slaves’ Names. When extracting and indexing historical or genealogical data on American slaves, researchers will find that most kinds of records usually give slaves a first name only. Since slaves were documented as property in most surviving records, a slave's legal identity was the combination of his/her first name and the full name of his/her owner. For research purposes, the slave owners’ complete names act as the best substitute for surnames of slaves (even if a record gives both a first and last name to a slave, the slave owner’s name will still be essential to tracing that slave in other sources); this combination of slave's first name and owner's full name can be as effective as the name of any free person in tracing slaves from record to record. For a lengthier discussion, see David E. Paterson, “A Perspective on Indexing Slaves’ Names,” The American Archivist, 64 (Spring/Summer 2001), 132-142.

http://www.afrigeneas.com/library/slaves_georgia.html

Plantation Projects

• Black Washingtons of Pope's Creek Plantation, Virginia
• White and Black Jeffersons
• Somerset Place Plantation, North Carolina
• Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

External links

• African names database
• List of slaves - Wikipedia
• Large slaveholders from 1860 and African American surname matches from 1870
• Slave names index - Index of names in historic newspapers
• Slave data collection - Afrigeneas
• The Lives of African-American Slaves in Carolina During the 18th Century
• Pennsylvania - The function of slave names
• Virginia Historical Society - Unknown no longer
• Kentucky slave narratives
• Afro-Louisiana history and genealogy
• Georgia 's Slave Population in Legal Records
• http://uneedspeed.net/~sdulac/PGSlaveConnections.htm
• New France 1760 - 1763 - Quebec Culture: includes names of Pawnee and Metis slaves
• Abstracts of North Carolina Wills
• A Study of the Africans and African Americans on Jamestown Island and at Green Spring, 1619-1803
• Standing in Way of Alabama Walmart: Slave Graves
• Kedzie: Saint Helena Island Slave
• African Origins information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic; database launched August 2012
• Virginia slaves freed after 1782