Downloadable Files

These three free, downloadable ebooks contain abstracts of all the Liberty County estate inventories found naming enslaved people between 1790 and 1865. Each book has an index of all the enslavers named. Because only first names of enslaved people are given, and spellings varied over time, adding indexes of the enslaved people proved problematic. Instead, a spreadsheet that acts as an index for all three ebooks together was created and donated to the Enslaved.org project, where it has a permalink. The spreadsheet can be sorted by date, enslavers’ names, names of the enslaved OR a field that contains standardized versions of these names for sorting purposes. Once you have found an estate inventory you would like to explore further, use the date to determine which book it would be in. Please don’t forget that the old handwriting in the original documents was often difficult to read. Each estate inventory abstract has a link to the original document. Please check it and draw your own conclusions.