Finding the Names: A Free Guide to the Public Records of America's Slave Trade

A free guide to the public records of America's slave trade — the ship manifests, sale ledgers, and courthouse papers where enslaved people's names were written down, and where their descendants may find them today. Inside: the National Archives coastwise slave manifests (the New Orleans lists alone name more than 63,000 people), where the sale prices and buyers live, the big free name projects already searching (Enslaved.org, 10 Million Names), what the law allows to be republished and what it doesn't, a Florida chapter, and a plain step-by-step chapter on how to search for your own ancestor — including the 1870 brick wall. Built from public records only, transcribed the honest way, and given away free so families can find their people. 48 pages, 6x9, large type. By Okey and Susan Barker, Trails End.