Such a list is an enormous aid to black researchers who need that information; sometimes that's the only written record of an enslaved ancestor. The only way I was able to nail down my mother's ancestors was to contact the county they came from and ask the county clerk for all wills, testaments, bills of sale, and other filed papers that mentioned anyone enslaved. I found my mamma's people --- who later took the name BULLOCK(S) --- in a pre-Emancipation will of a RAGLAND widow.
They were from Virginia originally ...!
The link for sharing slave data is here. And thanks in advance ... it really does help!
I don't have any names (yet). All I have really is a vague reference in the will, and that's not even where I got the number (8). But I'll save the link and if I find anything I'll be sure to post.
There's some speculation that we have some African American blood in our line. We know there's some American Indian (that's the PC term for Virginia Indians) in there. I have the first name of one ancestor on a census with her husband (our family surname), but I have no "maiden" name for her, so I'm fairly sure that she's the American Indian.
I haven't really spent a lot of time on this since Luke was born (gee, wonder why). But when we get my m-i-l settled and the house back in some range of order, I want to get back to work on this.