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Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820

Online searchable database of over 100,000 descriptions of slaves found in documents in Louisiana between 1718 and 1821 from Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.

Enslavement to Citizenship

Dedicated to uncovering the Irish slaveholders in the United States and the names of the African Americans who were enslaved by them.

FamilySearch - Virginia, Slave Birth Index, 1853-1866

Index and images of birth registers compiled by the WPA.

Lantern Project

A collaborative project led by Mississippi State University as part of a coalition of institutions located within Mississippi and Alabama. The Lantern Project provides, for the first time, centralized and institutionally supported access to information in legal records documenting enslaved persons, including probate records, court records (orphans court, civil court, criminal court, and others), deeds, receipts, bills of sale, and other documents which were or could have been used as evidence in a trial, from across Mississippi and the Deep South.

Legacy of Slavery in Maryland

The Maryland State Archives' Study of the Legacy of Slavery Staff invites researchers to explore all of these elements and more within its numerous source documents, exhibits and interactive online presentations.

Northeast Slavery Records Index

NESRI is an online searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

University of Maryland Libraries - Slavery & Freedom in Maryland