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Central Pennsylvania African American Museum

Reading, Pennsylvania

Digital Library on American Slavery

The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is an expanding resource compiling independent collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single, simple interface. DLAS houses tens of thousands of records relating to all 15 slave states and Washington, D.C. as well as a number of northern states. DLAS contains detailed personal information about over 100 thousand individuals, including enslaved people, enslavers, free people of color, and more.

Digital Library on American Slavery - UNCG University Libraries

Race and Slavery Petitions Project, NC Runaway Slave Advertisements, Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, Slave Deeds of North Carolina, Slavery Era Insurance Registries.

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

From the University of Texas at Austin.

Grand Rapids African American Museum & Archives

Harriet Tubman Home

Auburn, New York.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

IAAM Center for Family History | Center for Family History at the International African American Museum

Indiana Historical Bureau

Jack Hadley Black History Museum

Thomasville, Georgia.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center’s mission is to honor and preserve the rich heritage and legacy of the African-American community of Charlottesville-Albemarle, Virginia and to promote a greater appreciation for, and understanding of, the contributions of African Americans and peoples of the Diaspora locally, nationally and globally.

Kentucky Center for African American Heritage

Library of Congress

Library of Congress - African-American Odyssey

Library of Congress - Digital Collections - Slaves and the Courts, 1740 to 1860

This collection consists of 105 library books and manuscripts, totalling approximately 8,700 pages drawn principally from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, with a few from the General Collections. The selection was guided in large part by the entries in Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases by Paul Finkelman (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1985), which was based on research in the Library collections. The documents comprise an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.

Library of Michigan

Maryland State Archives African American Resources

Merseyside Maritime Museum

Liverpool, England.

Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Washington, D.C. One of the world's largest and most comprehensive repositories for the documentation of the history and culture of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of the world. As one of Howard University's major research facilities, the MSRC collects, preserves, and makes available for research a wide range of resources chronicling the Black experience.

Multicultural Genealogical Center

A resource for studying southeast Ohio's African-American history. Located in Chesterhill, Ohio.