Ballard County Kentucky African American Records & Research
Collected by Teresa Skaggs, Coordinator for this County Site

Black History, Slaves, Slavery Etc

• African-American History, Bibliography For Kentucky ~ Compiled by Roseanne Hogan 
• UNC Chapel Hill Collection
  • 19th Century Autobiographies
  • Slave Narratives
  • The Fascinating Life of William Brown~ Louisville, Ky
• Africana Heritage Project ~ hosted by the University of South Florida
• Slave Entries in Wills, Deeds, Etc. ~ by Jo Thiessen
• Before Needles - Executions In America Before Lethal Injection
• Kentucky Collection Laws
  ~ Includes lists of Kentucky attorneys, bankers, etc. 
• Afrigeneas ~ ~ Probably the best-known Black American genealogy site.
• How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy ~ National Georgraphic Website
• The AFRO-American Almanac
• The Freedmen's Bureau Online
• Amistad Research Center
• African American Research by Roseann Reinemuth Hogan, Ph.D
• The Challenge of African American Research by Curt Witcher
• Born in Slavery ~Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1938
• The Southern Claims Commission by Reginald Washington
• The Britannica Guide to Black History
• The Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
• Notable KY African Americans
• Free African Americans of VA, SC, NC, DE & MD
• KY Historical Society Civil Rights Database
• Wachovia Report on U.S. Banks and Slavery

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