Introduction: How to use this book -- An overview -- How to begin -- Oral history -- Official records -- Migration patterns -- Records pertaining to slavery in Alabama -- Historical preservation and family history -- Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama -- Selective records survey of Alabama's counties -- Introduction to county records.
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution,
Date of Publication
c2008.
Physical Description
vi, 854 p. ill., facsims., maps ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliography (p. 761-812) and index.
Contents
The northern states -- The South -- Miscellaneous naval and military records -- Foreign allies -- West Indies -- Appendices. Map of the enslaved population, 1790 Census ; Documenting the color of participants in the American Revolution ; Names as clues to finding forgotten patriots ; The numbers of minority participants in the Revolution.
