Does anyone know of a listing of slave names?

Question:I am looking up the heritage behind my last name of which was given name by the original slave owner any suggestions?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I am looking up the heritage behind my last name of which was given name by the original slave owner any suggestions?

you actually are asking two different issues. Heritage of the surname itself would depend on several things. IE the owner might have been of French background. Some English ones, might have names that are commonly identified as English.. or not.
In reality then, if a former slave takes the surname of his/her former owner, genetically speaking, it is not his background. His actual background would be from the country of his actual ancestry.
Names of the slaves themselves can often be found in records of the owner's estate. (just being factual here, no judgement helps). Those records will be legal documents, ie deeds, wills and particularly if there is an inventory or estate sale.Those records will be specific to the exact owner and family members (when the slaves were kept within the family). I have seen some of these that will specify a relationship of mother/child.
AT BEST.. since the more 'well off' families had more property, those records are more likely to exist (barring courthouse destruction, so forth). When you find the owner family, you can sometimes work with the researchers to follow the trail/ migrations. I have also seen a few genweb sites with high African American historical populations, work to 'link' the family names in 1870 to those families before 1860, who were slave owners.

Just a question why do you want to know?

i can't think of any slave names other than
"dad", "boyfriend" and "husband"

I have seen a listing of slave owners but not the slaves. I think it is great that you want to trace your roots.

golden rod

I found this. . .
http://www.insurance.ca.gov/0100-consume...

I'm doing research on indian slave in CT. That's how I found it. . .

You may want to try the website of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, located in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have a pretty big website, and you could even try to email them with your question. I bet they'd help you out. Good Luck!

http://www.freedomcenter.org/

i dont know but a good place to start looking would be the maratime museum in liverpool were they have a large collection of exibits and information about the slave trade. im not sure of there email or web but im sure if you google it you could find out!

Go to ancestry.com
African American http://landing.ancestry.com/aahistory/de...

That is a great question, you might want to try your city's courthouse. I believe that there should be an archive there. Tell the clerk what you are trying to do, also I had an auntie who has since passed away. But she was like a human computer when it came to the history of my family. Maybe you might have a relative who can help you or at least lead you in a good direction.

If you know the name of the slave owner, then we can look up the names of the slaves on a series of records, from the Slave Schedules on the 1840 and 1850 decennial censuses to the slave sale records. Otherwise, the question is a little too broad to help you. We'd need the name in order to track any semblance of history. There isn't one lone list of all names and their history.

Umm - your question isn't clear.

You can find a whole slew of slave names by going to the LDS 1880 census, setting the state to Virginia, the date of birth to 1840 (+/-) 20 and the race to "Black". 9 out of 10 of the hits you get will be freed slaves.

If, for instance, Anderson Pack owned slaves whose ancestors came from from what is now Ghana, Nigeria and Mali, and they took "Pack" as a surname in 1865, knowing that "Pack" is English instead of German isn't going to tell you much about your African heritage. Since Anderson trifled with the help, you can trace HIS line back to 1750, if you are 1/64th Pack, but not your African 63/64ths.

African American genealogy is a swamp, thanks to the racist dogs who ran the country until 1865. They didn't even ask for slave's names in the slave schedules, just how many, what age and what sex.

Once in a while you can find mention of a specific slave in a will, when an owner bequeaths him/her to his heir, and sort of track them a little, but in general you folks are facing a daunting task, and 99% of you are destined to hit brick walls in the middle 1800's.

Look at my answer to your other question about Cherokee and Blackfoot Indian ancestry. I put the answer to both questions in that one.
Best of Luck!