Category Index
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Centre County Government: Historical Records Imaging Project: Slave Records 1803-1820
Centre County, Pennsylvania. Online searchable index and scanned images.
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Chester County, Pennsylvania - Archives - Servant & Slavery Records
Chester County, Pennsylvania. Fugitive Slave Records, 1820-1839, Indentured Servant Complaints, 1700-1855, Negro Servant Returns, 1788-1821, Slave Manumissions.
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Details about the slave revolt on board the American brig Creole.
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Delaware: Enslaved and Free Persons, and Slaveholders (1836-1851)
This database is an ongoing project to index the names of enslaved persons and free persons, and slaveholders in Delaware. Each entry refers to the source of the information.
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Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863
Database from Christine's Genealogy Website.
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From the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center, a description of the index they created that lists the names of slaves found in Will Books and Deed Books in Fairfax County, Virginia.
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Florida: Leon County Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders - American Origins
This database is an ongoing project to index the names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in Leon County, Florida.
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Gold Chains: The Hidden History of Slavery in California | ACLU NorCal
In observation of the four centuries that have passed since the enslavement of people of African descent in the United States in 1619, this website examines an under-reported slice of California’s unique racial legacy – one tarnished by the unlawful and inhumane treatment of Black and Indigenous people.
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Illinois Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records 1722-1863
This database includes more than 2000 transactions found in governmental records involving the servitude and emancipation of Africans and, occasionally,Indians in the French and English eras of colonial Illinois (1722-1790) and African-Americans in the American period of Illinois (1790-1863).
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The International Slavery Museum highlights the international importance of slavery, both in a historic and contemporary context. Working in partnership with other museums with a focus on freedom and enslavement, the museum provides opportunities for greater awareness and understanding of the legacy of slavery today. It is located in Liverpool's Albert Dock, at the centre of a World Heritage site and only yards away from the dry docks where 18th century slave trading ships were repaired and fitted out.
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Johnston County Heritage Center - Genealogical Research
Smithfield, North Carolina. We hold approximately 2,500 books, 800 reels of microfilm, 300 maps/atlases, 100,000 photographic images, 600 private collections of books and papers, and vertical files on genealogy, biography, and local history. The focus for genealogical records primarily includes the eastern half of North Carolina and the Virginia Tidewater region.
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Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
A digital academic journal that publishes datasets and accompanying data articles about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation builds from and expands upon the pioneering digital scholarship on the transatlantic slave trade. As such, the journal elevates curated data to a first-class publication status, providing scholarly review, recognition, and credit to those who undertake the intellectual work involved in generating, cleaning, contextualizing, and describing digital records relating to bondage and freedom in Africa and the diaspora.
