Category Index
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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.
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Abolition was a cause whose beginnings and sustenance came largely from Quakers in northeastern America and England. This project is a joint venture of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.
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Race and Slavery Petitions Project
Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Race and Slavery Petitions Project is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Project offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.
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Reclaiming Kin - Taking Back What Was Once Lost
Reclaiming is a genealogy teaching blog, over 10 years old, that focuses on growing genealogical skills for all genealogists and on the special challenges of researching the enslaved. Reclaiming Kin is all about: to document family history research in a way that teaches and engages the reader; to share discoveries, finds, approaches and tools that further research; to provide ways to make our research exciting for others by adding social history; to shine a light on resources, repositories, websites and other sources; and to highlight and discuss the many challenges of slavery and slave research.
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Records that pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade
The following is information found in the records of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. For further insight, see Walter B. Hill Jr.'s Prologue article on the topic.
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This project is a collaboration between Fold3 (Formerly Footnote.com), the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, FamilySearch and Lowcountry Africana, to digitize every surviving estate inventory for Colonial and Charleston South Carolina from 1732 to 1872, as well as selected Bills of Sale for the same period, in a FREE collection.
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This ongoing project is a collection of African American slave names that were printed in west Tennessee newspapers before 1865. These men, women and children were advertised as runaway slaves or listed as property for sale.
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This ongoing project is a collection of African American slave names that were printed in west Tennessee newspapers before 1865. These men, women and children were advertised as runaway slaves or listed as property for sale. All material on this website is transcribed from microfilm as faithfully as possible; however, errors may occur. The original sources are available at the Memphis & Shelby County Public Library.
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Online searchable database from the Maryland State Archives. Electronic and card index to free blacks and former owners listed in Prince George's County records 1808-1869, created in typescript by Louise Joyner Hienton in 1971. It is identified as Index 38 and contains approximately 18,200 cards.
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Slave Archival Collection Database
A slave database with information collected from living descendants across the country. Descendants can contribute to the website online by submitting their enslaved ancestor's name, date and place of birth and death and any other information.
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Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network
An open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves.
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Results of a Cape Fear Community College project to document pre-Civil War slave records in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
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Slave Emancipation through the Prism of Archives Records
Article by Joseph P. Reidy for Prologue: Special Issue on Federal Records and African American History.
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Slave Names from Records - Noxubee County, Mississippi
Names, ages, and other information taken from Probate records books A providing some insight into origin or surnames.
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Slave Names in Wills : Fayette County, Tennessee
Indexed transcription of all slave names listed in wills probated in Fayette County, Tennessee, USA, from 1836 through 1854. Includes index of slaveowner names.
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Slave Trading in the Old South (Amazon.com)
By Frederic Bancroft
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Slaveholders and African Americans 1860-1870
LARGE SLAVEHOLDERS OF 1860 and AFRICAN AMERICAN SURNAME MATCHES FROM 1870. There are currently 8,395 surname/County combinations and 11,020 individual slaveholder names on the large slaveholder lists, representing a total of 792,219 slaves in 158 Counties (Parishes in Louisiana) in 10 States. This total represents 49.8% (approximately one half) of the slaves that were held in these Counties, and 20.05% (1 out of every 5) slaves held in the United States in 1860. The Counties and Parishes included here had 40.27% (2 out of 5) of the slaves held in the United States in 1860, and almost one half of those were held by the slaveholders listed at this site.
