Civil War Slavery Receipts National Archives Records Show Slaveholders Anti slavery fair invitation, 1846 ( naid 6883567) the records at the national archives that relate to the formerly enslaved and former slaveholders are mainly from the years of the civil war and reconstruction (1861 1877). these were the years that the federal government had its most direct contact with the formerly enslaved and slaveholders. Rg 36 records of the united states customs service, 1745 1982. congress created the custom service on july 31, 1789 and made it a part of the department of treasury (september 1789). the service assisted other agencies in the enforcement of the slave trading laws that were passed between 1794 to 1820.
Slavery Civil War The national archives has made available online a trove of almost 6,000 confederate government payroll records that account for money issued to hundreds of owners and others for the work of the. There are church records, and probate documents, but “otherwise, this would be one of the few lists of slaves owned by a slave owner,” she added. although some states have additional slave payrolls, the national archives maintains thousands of documents captured during the war from 10 southern states; most are from virginia and north carolina. The best place to find information about an enslaved person before 1812 is in the private papers of the slave owner, or in records about the owner or his or her property. papers might still be with the family or deposited in a local archive or library where the family lived or settled. a search for records of an enslaved person will be much. After the end of the civil war, the federal war records office arranged, indexed, and numbered the documents. these nearly 6,000 documents have been digitized by national archives and records administration staff and are available online for researchers.