Nearly 6,000 Confederate Slave Payroll records have been digitized for the first time by National Archives staff in a multiyear project that just concluded in January 2020. The entire collection can now be viewed online.
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The Confederate Quartermaster Department created the payrolls for slave labor on Confederate military defenses. After the end of the #CivilWar, the Federal War Records Office arranged, indexed, and numbered the documents.
Before the documents could be scanned, the National Archives conservation team had to stabilize them. There were tears and breaks that could render some text illegible. For these records, that took over 3,000 hours.
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The documents provide a rare record of slave names. The lists may interest African American genealogists, local historians, and researchers on slavery during the war.
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