Keyword Year How to Search Advanced Search Showing 40 ads Tags: dowry Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Appeal: A National Afro-American Newspaper (St. Paul and Minneapolis, MN)Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS)Evening Star (Washington, DC)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN)The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) Tags dowryAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchaunt(s)changed namechild(ren)Civil Warcontrabandsconvicteddebtdying wishemancipationescapedestateestate divisionfamily historyfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfoundfraternal groupsfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)inheritancekidnappingleft with Union Armyletter to the editorliteracylynchingmaritime workmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readparent(s)propertyremarriedresistancerunawaysearching for former enslaverself-emancipationsibling(s)slave tradeslave tradersold southsteamboatstolenU. S. Armyuncle(s)untranscribedveteranwhite newspaperwidow A. D. Coleman searching for his brother Anderson Turner and daughter Lucy Turner Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 19, 1882 A. D. Coleman searching for his brother Anderson Turner and his daughter Lucy Turner Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) January 19, 1882 A. R. Rimawr seeking information about grandparents Randel and Rilda Rankins and extended family The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA) February 15, 1900 Alford Woodson searching for his brother Robert Woodson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 9, 1886 B. J. Houston searching for his mother Jane McKinan and his siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 20, 1880 Caroline Hogan (formerly Caroline Brown) looking for her father Isaac Jimerson, her mother Peggy Brown, and her siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 14, 1881 Caroline Hogan (formerly Caroline Brown) seeking her father Isaac Jamison, mother Peggy Brown, and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 8, 1881 Charles Henry Turner searching for his brother Thomas Turner Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 31, 1879 Clara Foltz searching for the family of her father Mitchel Oliver Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 3, 1881 Clarissa, [last name unknown] searching for her parents and siblings The Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 23, 1885 Dave Stewart searching for his relatives and his wife's relatives Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 1, 1883 Ed Kneeright searching for his grandmother Lucy Walter and her children Rachel, Cherry, and Sam Walter Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 17, 1883 Elmira Kirkwood searching for her mother Jane Harris Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 8, 1888 Fanny Strong searching for her parents Joe and Sallie and her siblings Sucky, Dollie, Rachel, Joseph, and Green or her former enslaver's family Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) May 13, 1907 George Henry Forbes searching for his father George Henry, mother Henrietta Forbes, and siblings James, Margaret, and Area Atchison Weekly Champion (Atchison, KS) September 5, 1885 Harriet Sherrill (formerly Harriet Clarke) searching for her mother Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 6, 1883 J. H. Holden (formerly Joseph Waddle) seeking his father Holder Waddle Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 23, 1881 James M. Cullins searching for his father Tom Cullins and sister Vina Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 3, 1880 John A. Brown searching for his parents and siblings George, Mary Jane, Ellen Nora, and Peter Brown Evening Star (Washington, DC) December 21, 1886 Kitty Hanley searching for her children Esther and Sam Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) March 25, 1880 Lucinda Pillow (formerly Lucinda Hargrave) searching for her siblings George and Fannie Hargrave The Freeman (Indianapolis, IN) January 26, 1895 Lucinda Singletery searching for her unnamed mother and several siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 1, 1882 M. A. E. Tolbert (formerly Martha Ann Elizabeth Brooks) searching for her mother Elizabeth Brooks Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 19, 1879 Malissa Baker (formerly Malissa Robertson) searching for Bettie and Mary Hicks Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 20, 1888 Manervia Carway searching for her daughter Millie Dortha (formerly Millie Carway) Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 26, 1887 of 2