This series of deed abstracts include the names of slaves who were bought, sold, mortgaged, hired, traded, inherited or otherwise inventoried in the Ark-La-Tex region. This gigantic undertaking will cover an estimated 30 counties and parishes, and will be broken down into managable volumes with 1 or more counties per book.
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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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"No Land Only Slaves!" Volume 3 are abstracts of the Deeds of Conveyance Records of Caddo Parish, Louisiana in hardback form.
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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 and include a case study.
Volume 3 is in hardback cover with red library-binding and white lettered spine.
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Volume 1: Bossier Parish, Louisiana; has an index of 1,454 slaveholders entries and a 3,797 slave name index.
Volume 2: Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; has an index of over 1,400 slaveholders cited and a 2,186 slave name index.
Volume 3: Caddo Parish, Louisiana; has an index of over 13,000 slave names and an EVERY NAME index of over 18,000 entries, which include all names within each slave transaction, such as slaveholders, wittnesses, notaries, recorders (clerks), judges and more.
