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45th U.S. Colored Infantry – West Virginia Troops
A Brief History of African Americans in West Virginia
A Timeline of African-American History in West Virginia
African American Communities in West Virginia
Deaths at the West Virginia Colored Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Denmar (Searchable list with vital data)
Kanawha County Slave Owners
Links to Online Census Records, Marshall County, West Virginia (slave owners & people of color)
People of Color South
Slavery in Present West Virginia in 1860
Tucker County, West Virginia Partial Listing of Births ... 1857 and 1858 (includes slaves)
West Virginia African American Genealogy
WV African American Higginbotham Obituaries
WV National Guard Celebrates Black History Month
General:
African-American Baptist Annual Reports, 1865-1990s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1999. West Virginia churches and associations. /Microfilm Rolls 102-103/
Ayers, Edward L. The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2017. 576p. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.7 Ay24t/
Berkey, Jonathan M. . War in the Borderland: The Civilians' Civil War in Virginia's Lower Shenandoah Valley. State College, PA: The Pennsylvania State University, 2003. 324p. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 973.7 B45wa/
Burke, Dawne Raines. Storer College: A Hope for Redemption in the Shadow of Slavery, 1865-1955. Falls Church, VA: D. R. Burke, 2004. 464p. Appendices. Bibliography. Notes. /GC 975.402 H23bu/
Lubet, Steven. The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry: John Anthony Copeland and the War Against Slavery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 272p. Bibliography. Index. Notes. /GC 975.402 H23Lu/
Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. 166p. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Photographs. /GC 973.068 Sw67un/
Trotter, Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-32. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1990. 290p. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Photographs /GC 975.4 T756c/
Berkeley County:
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Battaile Muse papers, 1731-1891. /Series F, Part 3, Rolls 20-29/
Brooke County:
Colored Marriage Records, 1909-1937. Wellsburg, WV: Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, 1971. Index. /Microfilm WV Core Collection Brooke County Roll 3/
Cabell County:
Johnson, Dolores M. Not a Story to be Told: Discourse, Race, and Myth in Huntington, West Virginia Newspapers, 1872-1972. Indiana, PA: D. M. Johnson, 1995. 291p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Notes. /GC 975.402 H92jo/
Doddridge County:
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. George N. Thrift papers, 1857-1860. /Series F, Part 3, Roll 35/
Fayette County:
Bickley, Ancella R. . . . to be Black in Fayette. Fayetteville, WV: A. R. Bickley, 1992. 92p. Appendices. Bibliography. /GC 975.402 F29bi/
Jefferson County:
Anderson, Osborne P. A Voice from Harper's Ferry. New York: World View Forum, 2000. 124p. Illustrations. Photographs. /GC 975.402H23an/
Burke, Dawne Raines. An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation, 1865-1955. Morgantown, WV: Storer College Books, 2015. 147p. Photographs. Commemorative Edition. /GC 975.402 H23bd/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Blackford family papers, 1836-1858. /Series M, Part 6, Roll 1/
Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, Inc., 198-. Franklin Osburn papers, 1849-1875. /Series M, Part 6, Rolls 5-6/
Kanawha County:
Jackson, David W. . Born a Slave: Rediscovering Arthur Jackson's African American Heritage. Greenwood, MO: The Orderly Pack Rat, 2015. 328p. Appendices. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Photographs. /GC 929.2
Monroe County:
White, Sandra. Slaves of Monroe County, Virginia. Union, WV: Monroe County Historical Society, 2013. 43p. /GC 975.401 M76ws/
Pocahontas County:
Lindsay, William O. African-American Residents of Pocahontas County, West Virginia During the 18th, 19th, & 20th Century. Elkins, WV: Allegheny Regional Family History Society, 1997. 62p. References. /GC 975.401 P75li/
Preston County:
Copney, Nancy Jane. African-American Life in Preston County. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999. 128p. Images of America Series. Photographs. /GC 975.401 P92c/