Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 710 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Afro-American (Baltimore, MD)Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)Afro-American Ledger (Baltimore, MD)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Bee (Ripley, OH)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Daily Newbernian (New Bern, NC)Daily Press and Herald (Knoxville, TN)Iowa State Bystander (Des Moines, IA)Kansas City Sun (Kansas City, MO)Lost Friends AdLoyal Georgian (Augusta, GA)Montgomery Daily Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)Nashville Globe (Nashville, TN)New National Era (Washington, DC)New Orleans Tribune (New Orleans, LA)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)Southern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southern Republican (Demopolis, AL)Southwestern Christian AdvocateSouthwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate, (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Recorder (New Orleans, LA)St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO)St. Louis Post Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)The Abbeville Press and Banner (Abbeville, SC)The Appeal (Chicago, IL)The Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Boston Daily Globe (Boston, MA)The Buffalo Enquirer (Buffalo, NY)The Buffalo Review (Buffalo, NY)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Colored American (Washington, DC)The Colored Tenessean (Nashville, TN)The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)The Elevator (San Francisco, CA)The Freedman (Boston, MA)The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)The Georgia Baptist (Augusta, GA)The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)The Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)The Nationalist (Mobile, AL)The New York World (New York, NY)The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, SC)The Weekly Clarion (Jackson, MS)The Weekly Louisianian (New Orleans, LA)Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT) [Ad copied from the Zion Church Advocate, published in Washington, DC, with commentary by the editor of the Vermont Phoenix] Item Type Ad Tags family historyAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchattorneyaunt(s)capturedchanged namechild(ren)Civil WarCivil War battleConfederate States Armycontrabandsconvicteddebtdeceaseddesertion (spousal)dowrydying wishemancipationemigrationenslaver looking for former slaveescapedescaped from jailestateestate divisionExodustersfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfraternal groupsfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)hired outIndian Territoryinheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyliteracylocation knownlynchingmanumittedmaritime workmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readmissing person(s)multiple adsmutual searchNative Americansnewspaper replyniecenorthern slaveryorphan/orphanageparent(s)passingperson with a disabilityphysical descriptionprobatepropertyrailroadrailroad workerReconstructionremarriedresistancereunion successfulrewardrunawaysailorsearching for former enslaverself-emancipationself-injuryself-purchasesibling(s)simultaneous searchskilled tradeslave tradeslave tradersoldsold southsoldierspeculatorspousesteamboatstolensuicideU. 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Criner searching for his father Thomas Perry Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 1, 1879 Mrs. Sarah Bell searching for her sister Julia (also known as Judy) (2 of 2 ads) Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) May 14, 1898 Spencer Coleman searching for his mother Mary and brother Ed Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) May 7, 1898 of 29
