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The title of our series was inspired from our personal experience researching at the Bossier Parish Clerk's Office. We found that many of the pages within these massive deed books were blank, with but a brief caption in the center of the page which read "No land transferred in this instrument, only slaves." That was it. A huge page about 2 foot by 1 foot with a single sentence in the center and the names of the transacting parties on the top corner. We were stunned to think that when these records were transcribed into the books, the land was deemed valuable enough to merit meticulous transferance to each page, but the slaves did not. With this heart-rending thought, we chose to make a book dedicated to the deeds of the Slaves themselves and not the land.
In this way, our books are a different way to look at deeds.
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Volume 2 of series, "No Land Only Slaves!", was taken from the Deeds of Conveyance Records of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana.
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The format:
All of the books in this series of are 9 X 11.5 inches and have wide margins to aid researchers who take copious notes. Each volume covers the years of creation for that county or parish through emancipation.
Volume 2 is divided into 8 chapters and represent the 8 Deeds of Conveyance books of Claiborne Parish.
Volume 2 includes a case study to aid the family history researcher, an index of over 1,400 slaveholders cited and a 2,186 slave name index.
