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Arkansas Resources

  • Writer: Kellie Farrish
    Kellie Farrish
  • May 15, 2023
  • 1 min read

Arkansas Probate Records 1817-1979, Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2061549

African American Resources for Arkansas, Family Search: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/African_American_Resources_for_Arkansas

Fugitives from Injustice: Freedom-Seeking Slaves in Arkansas 1800-1860 National Park Service, US Department of the Interior National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, Midwest Region: http://npshistory.com/publications/ugrr/hrs-ar.pdf

Arkansas County, Arkansas Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Schedules and Surname matches in the 1870 census: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ajac/ararkansas.htm

Arkansas Genealogy Trails Slave Narratives as told by the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1938: http://genealogytrails.com/ark/slavenarratives.html

Arkansas African American Genealogy (includes colored troop database, freedman's bureau records, etc.: https://arkansasgenealogy.com/aa

Sevier Co., Arkansas Slaves and Their Owners (short sample): http://www.argenweb.net/sevier/slave.htm

Slaveholders and Slaves of Hempstead County, Arkansas: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6096/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf

The Peculiar Institution on the Periphery: Slavery in Arkansas, Kelly Eileen Jones, University Arkansas at Fayetteville: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/84121506.pdf

Digital Library on American Slavery, UNC Chappel Hill: http://dlas.uncg.edu/




 
 
 

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