South Carolina Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, Japanese American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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South Carolina Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Claim Records,1865-1872, index & images (marriage, labor, land, court, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Labor Contracts, Indenture and Apprenticeship Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, labor, bounty, medical, land, personal information), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, employment, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
South Carolina Minority Records Online at the state level
South Carolina – African American – South Carolina Obits, at AG
South Carolina – African American – South Carolina Plantations, at S
South Carolina – African American – Freedmen’s Bureau Records, at FBO
- Transportation Requests Received Apr. 20 – Dec. 21, 1866
- Transportation Orders
- Rules for Marriage for Freedmen
- Names of Freedmen to whom grants of land have been furnished on Jehosse Isl’d
- Statement in regard to a murder committed at Cokesbury, Abbeville Dist. on the 19 July 66 by man named of Reuben Golding of Abbeville and that the Governor of the State has offered a reward of 250 dollars for his arrest.
- Report of Business Transactions for the month of August 1866
- Report concerning Freedmen on Port Royal and adjacent Islands, including summary of abandoned plantations
- Report of conditions in the Savannah, Georgia (includes the South Carolina Sea Islands and the area of South Carolina near Savannah)
- Report of conditions in Moncks Corner, South Carolina
- Freedmens Bureau Reports of murders and outrages, Oct. 1865-Nov. 1868 in South Carolina
- Freedmen’s Bureau Report of Operations in South Carolina – Oct. 23, 1865, Lt. Col. C. S. Brown
- Freedmen’s Bureau Report of Operations and Conditions in Orangeburg, South Carolina
- Freedmen’s Bureau Report of Conditions of Freedmen at Pineville, South Carolina
- Freedmen’s Bureau Report of Outrage in Barnwell, S. C. Sub-District
- Freedmen’s Bureau Report of the killing of Elbert
South Carolina – African American – South Carolina, Charleston District, Bill of sales of Negro slaves, 1774-1872, index links to images, at FS
South Carolina – African American – South Carolina, Charleston District, Bill of sales of Negro slaves, 1774-1872, index links to images, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Led on! : step by step; scenes from clerical, military educational, and plantation life in the south, 1828-1898; an autobiography, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Miscellaneous records, 1771-1868, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Mortgage records, 1734-1860; index, 1709-1840, at FS
South Carolina – African American – A narrative of the adventures and escape of Moses Roper from American slavery, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series A, Selections from the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series B, Selections from the South Carolina Historical Society, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series F, Selections from the Manuscript Department, Duke University Library, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Records of ante-bellum Southern plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War : Series J, Selections from the Southern Historical Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1870 : NARA, RG105, M869, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Records of the field offices for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG 105, M1910, at FS
South Carolina – African American – Led on! : step by step; scenes from clerical, military educational, and plantation life in the south, 1828-1898; an autobiography, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – The German and German-Swiss element in South Carolina, 1732-1752, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – History of the German settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina : from the earliest period of the colonization of the Dutch, German and Swiss settlers to the close of the first half of the present century, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – The Huguenots of colonial South Carolina, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – The Jews of South Carolina from the earliest times to the present day, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – Quaker families of South Carolina & Georgia, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – Records of the field offices for the state of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872 : NARA, RG 105, M1910, at FS
South Carolina – Minorities – Register of Carolina Huguenots : partial listing of 81 refugee families, at FS
South Carolina – Native American – My father’s people : a complete genealogy of the Catawba nation, at FS
South Carolina – Native American – The Indians of South Carolina, at FS
South Carolina – Native American – Index of History of the old Cheraws, at FS
South Carolina Minority Records Online at the county level
McCormick County – Minorities – An Address Delivered at New Bordeaux, Abbeville District, S.C., November 15, 1854 : on the 90th Anniversary of the Arrival of the French Protestants at the Place, at FS
South Carolina Minority Records Online at the city level
Beaufort – Minorities – Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1868-1874, at FS
Charleston – Minorities – Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1865-1874, at FS
Charleston – Minorities – State Free Negro Capitation Tax Books, Charleston, South Carolina, Ca. 1811-1860, at FS
Charleston – Minorities – The History of the German Friendly Society of Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1916, at FS
Hamburg – Minorities – An Address to the People of the United States, at FS
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