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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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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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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
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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Mercy Street Revealed Blog - Kenyatta Berry
A series of blog posts about slavery by Kenyatta Berry.
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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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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
National Park museum under construction in Cincinnati. Will contain records pertaining to all slavery-era persons. Collecting oral history on Underground Railroad sites and stories.
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North American Slave Narratives
From Documenting the American South.
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