Hello everyone, For the past month, I've been reading the book called Soul by Soul, Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market written by Walter Johnson too... and have been in contact with Professor Johnson (he's from Columbia)... the ledger he references frequently in this book is the one I am transcribing with a group of volunteers. We could still use some help if anyone is interested. The ledger is about 300 hand written pages of John R. White's slave trading business in Central Missouri. The book also includes references to a large slaveowning family that owned many of my ancestors named TUTT. I am in the process of getting permission from the Western Historical Manuscript Collection in St. Louis to create an online searchable database of the materials. This should be a very interesting collection once it is completed. Most of the slaves have first and last names; as they were owned by Missouri slave owners.. and many were sold to Louisiana, Arkansas etc. The age, sex and amount of purchase, sale and new owners are noted. In many instances the former owner is also noted. It is a difficult document to transcribe...but I think the end result will tell a very interesting story about the plight about the enslaved people of Missouri. We could still use volunteers to transcribe Howard County, & St. Charles Black marriages and several slave schedules. If you run across a listing for ANY Black cemeteries in Missouri, please let me know. I receive many emails regarding black burial locations. If you have a link to a census transcription for 1870 or a slave schedule ... please let me know. New on the site: Mount Nebo Cumberland Presbyterian Roll Records for 1849 & 1859 http://www.rootsweb.com/~moafram/mtnebo.html Submitted by James F. Thoma, Webmaster for the MoGenWeb Cooper County Missouri site. The rolls appear to have been taken in 1849. The original roll separated members by 1) males, 2)females, and 3) colored males, and 4) colored females. In this compilation, he has combined the three rolls in order to keep the list alphabetized. But to keep some of the original flavor of the rolls, white men are denoted in "normal black type", white women are denoted in "italicized blue type", colored men are denoted in "normal pink type" and colored women are denoted in "italicized red type". By in large this record is very legible for its' age. Thanks. Enjoy. Traci Wilson Kleekamp African Americans In Missouri Http://www.rootsweb.com/~moafram