Keyword Year How to Search Advanced Search Showing 45 ads Tags: literacy Sort by: Title Refine search Source Select...Bee (Ripley, OH)Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA)Provincial Freeman and Weekly Advertiser (Windsor/Toronto/Chatham, Canada West)Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA)Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)Southwestern Christian Recorder (New Orleans, LA)The Austin Weekly Statesman (Austin, TX)The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory)The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, PA)The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA)The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH)The Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, IL)The Liberator (Boston, MA)The McCook Tribune (McCook, NE)The National Tribune (Washington, DC)The New York World (New York, NY)The Newberry Herald (Newberry, SC)The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV) Tags literacyAfrican Methodist Episcopal Churchantebellum adaunt(s)capturedchanged namechild(ren)Civil Warcontrabandsdowrydying wishemancipationemigrationescapedestateestate divisionfamily historyfemale enslaverforced migrationformer enslaverfoundfree people of colorfreedgrandparent(s)heir(s)left with Union Armyletter to the editormanumittedmaritime workmaster diedmigration (north)migration (post-emancipation)migration (west)ministerministers please readmissing person(s)multiple admultiple adsparent(s)physical descriptionReconstructionremarriedresistancereunionrunawaysailorsearching for former enslaverself-emancipationsibling(s)simultaneous searchskilled tradeslave tradeslave tradersold southspouseU. S. ArmyU. S. Colored InfantryU. S. Colored Troopsuncle(s)Underground Railroaduntranscribedveteranwhite newspaperwidow D. J. Price searching for his nephew Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) June 24, 1880 Unnamed person seeking their sister Harriet Barquet Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) December 22, 1887 D. J. Price looking for his nephew Robert Brown Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 23, 1882 Charles Edward Hudson searching for his father Richard Hudson Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) November 14, 1889 Naro Gillespie searching for their siblings, including their sister Mary Ann and father Charles Walker Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 20, 1881 Cora Anderson searching for the family of her mother Matilda Vanoy Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) April 11, 1889 Granville Smith looking for Thomas Smith and R. P. Randolph Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) September 15, 1881 Melindy Stewart searching for her mother Eliza, father Jack, and siblings Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) August 19, 1880 Titus Davis searching for his brothers Davie and Charles Davis Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) October 28, 1880 Isaac Galley searching for his mother Nelly Thomas and siblings Charles, Deliade, and Amelia Galley Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) July 28, 1881 Mrs. Amy Frenchy (formerly Amy Morris and Amy Baxter) found her mother Feraby The Black Hills Daily Times (Deadwood, Dakota Territory) May 4, 1884 Ellen Johnson reunited with her mother after 50 years The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) September 12, 1885 Vina Johnson reunited with her husband George Perry after 43 years The Highland Weekly News (Hillsboro, OH) August 14, 1873 Henny Butler searching for her daughter Frances The Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA) August 12, 1843 Harriet Relf searching for her husband Quindy Relf The Liberator (Boston, MA) June 8, 1849 Mrs. Anna Mollie Wright reunited with her daughter Mrs. Anna Freeman after 29 years The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, WV) April 11, 1892 Tom Carnahan, the only black police officer in Lincoln, NE, finds his brother after two decades The McCook Tribune (McCook, NE) November 4, 1886 Henry Wilson reunited with his sister after 39 years The Jacksonville Daily Journal (Jacksonville, IL) November 4, 1903 Rev. Mack Henson finds his father The Austin Weekly Statesman (Austin, TX) March 26, 1891 Mrs. Clara Bashop searching for her daughter Patience (3rd of 4 ads placed) The New York World (New York, NY) October 2, 1892 Alex Myers seeking information about his grandmother and her children Richmond Planet (Richmond, VA) May 30, 1914 Mrs. Woodsen finds sister Mrs. Culton after 42-year separation Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) July 12, 1891 William H. Todd finds his mother, age 100, after 40-year separation Pittsburgh Dispatch (Pittsburgh, PA) March 12, 1891 J. D. Haskell searching for his mother, father, sisters, and brothers Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 23, 1884 Nancy Williams (formerly Nancy Mosbey) searching for her mother Jennie Moseby as well as her four brothers and her sister Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA) May 29, 1884 of 2