African-Americans
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Camilla and Zack Hubert Historic Homesite in Springfield was dedicated in Ocotber 2004.
1925 Newspaper Article about  Zack and Camilla Hillman Hubert Family

BIOGRAPHIES

Educators, Ministers, Medical
DICKSON, Amanda, heiress
GRIGGS, Allen R., Baptist minister, Texas
HOLSEY - Lucius Henry Holsey,  Bishop -Colored Methodist Episcopal Church
HUNT, Adella,  educator, administrator, Alabama
TOOMER, Nathaniel Jean, author, educator (stepson of Amanda America Dickson)
BOOKS
          Giving a Voice to the Ancestors (Excellent historical book about Baldwin & Hancock Racial Mix
Families: Ingram, Little, Fraley, Ellis, Allen, Butts, etc. ) Emily Allen Garland
Adele Logan Alexander, Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879 (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1991).
Kent Anderson Leslie, Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995).
John Rozier, Black Boss: Political Revolution in a Georgia County  (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1982).
The Rural Face of White Supremacy
CEMETERY RECORDS
African-American Cemeteries in Hancock County, Georgia through 1940
Hancock County Cemeteries
CHURCH RECORDS
African-American Members of Bethel Baptist Church
Colored Members of Powelton Baptist Church 1862
Churches


COURT PETITIONS 1836 - 1867
 

FUNERAL HOMES

Ingram Brothers Funeral Home
736 Spring St, Sparta, Georgia 31087
Phone: (706) 444-6436


POLITICIANS

African Americans in the House of Representatives
African Americans in the Georgia State Senate


RESEARCH

Free persons of color, 1855-1862  Georgia. Court of Ordinary (Hancock County).
Hancock County Records at Afrigeneas.com  (search)    Good source.
Georgia Archives- African-American Records
African American Research at national archives
Freedman's Bureau Records at national archives
Amanda A. Dickson's Account Book by C.W. Dubose  -Georgia Archives


SLAVE RECORDS
 

Hancock County Slaves/Freemen  1800-1860
Census Records, University of Virgina Library
Year Number of Slaves Free Coloured Males Free Coloured Females
1800 4,835 NA NA
1810 6,456 NA NA
1820 6,863 9 15
1830 7,180 16 21
1840 5,915 26 21
1850 7,306 34 28
1860 8,137 7 10
Georgia's Slave Population in Legal Records: Where and How to Look
Georgia Archives - African-American Resources
1860 Slave Holders
LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES
and
SURNAME MATCHES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS ON 1870 CENSUS
Freedman's Bureau


Eileen B.McAdams copyright 2004- 2006