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• Canadian Fugitive Slave Advertisements: An Untapped Archive of Resistance

• Chester County, Pennsylvania - Archives - Fugitive Slaves Records Index 1820-1839

  Chester County, Pennsylvania.

• Connecticut Runaway Sale Advertisements

• Digital Library on American Slavery North Carolina Runaway Slave Notices, 1750-1865

  Online access to all known runaway slave advertisements (more than 5000 items) published in North Carolina newspapers from 1751 to 1865. From UNCG University Libraries.

• Freedom on the Move

  A database of fugitives from North American slavery, a project by Cornell University.

• 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.

• 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.

• New York Historical Society Museum & Library - Slavery Collection, 1709-1864. Series XI, Clippings, 1718-1899 and undated $

  Assorted advertisements for sale of slaves, rewards for return of runaway slaves, the slave trade, and slavery in general, most unattributable to particular newspapers.

• Runaway Slave Ads Baltimore County, Maryland 1842-1863 (Wayback Machine)

• Runaway Slave Blog

  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.

• Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century

• Texas Runaway Slave Project - East Texas Digital Archives

  The Texas Runaway Slave Project is a database of runaway slave advertisements, articles and notices from newspapers published in Texas, as well as materials from court records, manuscript collections, and books. It documents more than 2,500 fugitive slaves from Texas. The project is ongoing and new content is regularly added to the webpage.

• The Adverts 250 Project |An Exploration of Advertising During the Era of the American Revolution, 250 Years Ago This Week

  • Slavery Adverts 250 on Twitter

• The Fugitive and the Hero - Connecticut History

• The Geography of Slavery in Virginia: Virginia Runaways, Slave Advertisements, Runaway Advertisements