Keyword Year Type Select Ads Obituaries How to Search Advanced Search Showing 1160 results Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Afro-American Advocate (Coffeyville, KS)Americus Weekly Recorder (Americus, GA)Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Asheville Daily Citizen (Asheville, NC)Baton Rouge Tri-weekly Gazette & Comet (Baton Rouge, LA)Beaufort Republican (Beaufort, SC)Buffalo Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY)Buffalo Evening News (Buffalo, NY)Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, NC)Charleston Mercury (Charleston, SC)Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)Daily Missouri Republican (St. Louis, MO)Davenport Sunday Democrat (Davenport, IA)Dziennik ChicagoskiEvening Star (Washington, DC)Fort Worth Gazette (Fort Worth, TX)Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, PA)Huntsville Gazette (Huntsville, AL)Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)Juniata Sentinel and Republican (Mifflintown, PA)Livingston Journal (Livingston, AL)Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY)Loyal Georgian (Augusta, GA)National Freedman's Savings Bank (Washington, D.C.)National Republican (Washington, DC)New Era (Washington, DC)New National Era (Washington, DC)New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, LA)Newburgh Journal (reprinted from)Osawatomie Graphic (Osawatomie, KS)People's Advocate (Washington, DC)Public Opinion (Chambersburg, PA)Raleigh Daily News (Raleigh, NC)Richmond Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA)San Francisco Call (San Francisco, CA)San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, CA)Southwestern Christain Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian AdvocateSouthwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LASouthwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, PA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans)Southwestern Christian Advocate, (New Orleans, LA)St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, MO)St. Louis Post Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)Star of Zion (Charlotte, NC)The Andrew County Republican (Savannah, MO)The Anglo-African (New York, NY)The Appeal (Chicago, IL)The Baptist Vanguard (Little Rock, AR)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Black Republican (New Orleans, LA)The Buffalo Enquirer (Buffalo, NY)The Buffalo Review (Buffalo, NY)The Butler Weekly Times (Butler, MO)The Chicago Defender (Chicago, IL)The Chicago Weekly Tribune (Chicago, IL)The Christian RecorderThe Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)The Colored Tenessean (Nashville, TN)The Colored Tennessean (Nashville, TN)The Columbia Herald (Columbia, TN)The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)The Daily Dispatch (Richmond, VA)The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)The Daily Republican (Monongahela, PA)The Daily State Journal (Richmond, VA)The Elevator (San Francisco, CA)The Evening Bulletin (Maysville, KY)The Examiner (San Francisco, CA)The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)The Huntsville Journal (Huntsville, AL)The Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL)The Nashville American (Nashville, TN)The Nashville Globe (Nashville, TN)The New York World (New York, NY)The Northwestern Recorder (Milwaukee, WI)The Plaindealer (Detroit, MI)The Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)The Selma Press (Selma, AL)The Southern Argus (Selma, AL)The Southern Workman (Hampton, VA)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The Star of Zion (Charlotte, NC)The State Capital (Springfield, IL)The Watchman and Southron (Sumter, SC)The Weekly Clarion (Jackson, MS)The Weekly Floridian (Tallahassee, FL)Union Springs Herald (Union Springs, AL)Vermont Phoenix (Brattleboro, VT) [Ad copied from the Zion Church Advocate, published in Washington, DC, with commentary by the editor of the Vermont Phoenix]Weekly Journal (Mercersburg, PA) Item Type Ad Tags forced migrationAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchantebellum adArmy Hospitalattorneyaunt(s)baptismcapturedchanged namechild(ren)Civil WarCivil War battleConfederate RaidsConfederate States Armycontrabandsconvictedcustodydebtdeceaseddesertion (spousal)dowrydying wishemancipationemigrationEnoch Ardenenslaver looking for former slaveescapedestateestate divisionfamily historyfemale enslaverformer enslaverfraternal groupsfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)hired outIndian Territoryinheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyliteracylocation knownLost Cause narrativelynchingmanumittedmaritime workmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readmissing person(s)multiple adsmutual searchNative Americansnewspaper replynorthern slaveryorphan/orphanageparent(s)passingperson with a disabilityphysical descriptionprobatepropertyrailroadrailroad workerReconstructionremarriedresistancereunion successfulrewardRobert E. 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