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Index of Campbells Abstract of Creek Freedman
Census Cards
This is a companion book to my previous work, Campbell's Abstract and
Index of the Creek Indian Census Cards in the office of the
Superintendent of the Five Civilized Tribes. This present work is an Abstract
and Index of the Creek Freedmen census cards in the office of the
Superintendent.
After the Civil War the Creeks entered into a treaty with the United States of
America and by the terms of this treaty all slaves of members of the Creek
Nation were recognized as members of that tribe and were given equal rights with
those by blood. The treaties under which the lands of the Creek Nation were
allotted to the individual members of the Tribe in severalty recognized this
right in these old slaves and their descendants and referred to them as
Freedmen. A separate roll was made for the Freedmen and a separate system of
census cards was prepared by the Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes and
these are the cards now in the office of the Superintendent which are here
abstracted.
The general plan of this Abstract and Index is the same as that followed in the
former book.
J. B. Campbell
Muskogee, Oklahoma
December 1, 1915.
