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AFoF Alert: Many Slaves Named in Morgan Co., Alabama AFoF Website!

A Friend of Friends, Kathy at AlGenWeb maintains a website — Morgan County Slaves & Their Owners — where researchers whose Ancestors owned slaves in Morgan County, Alabama can post related transcribed slave docs and data. This is an ongoing AFoF effort to assist African-American researchers from the Morgan County area and currently contains the names of slaves owned and/or sold by the... read more

AFoF Alert: Sandy BYNUM Southern Claims Commission Record, Madison Co., AL 1879

Our Genea-friend Regina of Kinfolk News *tweeted* the link to the 1879 Southern Claims Commission Record of Sandy BYNUM (African-American) of Madison County, Alabama. Extract of the record reads: Claim #: 51235 Total Pages: 51 Nature of Claim: One Sorrel Horse Amount Claimed: $150 Amount allowed: $110 From page 2 under remarks: The claimant is a colored man, was a slave. He was allowed to own property... read more

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