Joseph Black

Joseph received aid from the Freedmen’s Bureau in Fort Monroe in 1865 with Eliza Black, who may have been his mother. His former owner is listed as John Tyler of Charles City, Virginia. [1] He is not listed in Eliza’s household in the 1870 Census for Elizabeth City County, Virginia.

[1] The Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia, Names of the Destitute Freedmen Dependent Upon the Government in the Military Districts of Virginia, edited by Elizabeth Cann Kambourian, Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1997.