Category Index
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Landscape of Liberation - The African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee
An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1861 to 1865. Every point on the map is linked to primary documents and images that tell the story of people, places, and events.
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Le marronnage dans le monde atlantique, 1760-1848. Sources et trajectoires de vie.
Initiative portée par le Groupe d'histoire de l'Atlantique Français (FRQSC) en collaboration avec le projet « SHADD Biography Project: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade » (CRSH) , « Le marronnage dans le monde atlantique » vise à décloisonner les archives de l'esclavage. En ligne depuis 2009, cette plateforme permet d’interroger un corpus inédit et évolutif composé de plus de 20 000 documents portant sur l’une des principales formes de résistance à l’esclavage. Initiative led by the French Atlantic History Group (FRQSC) in collaboration with the project "SHADD Biography Project: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade" (CRSH), "Marronnage in the Atlantic World" aims to decompartmentalize the archives of slavery.
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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.
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Library of Congress - Fugitive Slave Ads: Topics in Chronicling America
A guide for researching the topic of "fugitive slave ads" in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers.
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Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records
By Walter B. Hill, Jr. for Prologue
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Living with the Hydra: The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records
George Washington Williams's History of the Negro in American from 1619 to 1880 viewed slavery as a legal and political problem at the core of the new federal government.
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Lost Friends Advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate
The Lost Letters were letters written by loved ones searching for family members lost during slavery. It is a searchable database and contains letters written in the Advocate from November 1879 to December 1900 in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
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Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States
Scanned image of the map compiled from the census of 1860.
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Maryland: Charles County Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders
An indexing project which lists names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in Charles County, Maryland
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Liverpool, England.
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Online searchable database and slave schedules.
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National Park Service - Network to Freedom
A national Underground Railroad program to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories.
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North American Slave Narratives
From Documenting the American South.
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Ontario Heritage Trust - Slavery to Freedom
During the 19th century, thousands of enslaved and many free African-Americans fled the United States and made their way to freedom in Canada. The province of Ontario was one of their primary destinations.
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P.A. Miller - Slave Records from my research
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland.
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Parliament & the British Slave Trade 1600-1833
History of the British Slave Trade and its abolition by the British Parliament. Includes transcripts of two petitions raised by the people of Manchester, Lancashire, in connection with the bill for abolition.
