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North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association

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.

P.A. Miller - Slave Records from my research

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland.

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.

Quakers & Slavery

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.

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.

Radical Antislavery and Personal Liberty Laws in Antebellum Ohio, 1803-1857

A dissertation by Hur, Hyun at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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.

Restore the Ancestors Project

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.

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.

Searching for Ancestors Who Were Slaves: An Index to the Freedom Records of Prince George's County Maryland, 1808-1869

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.

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.

Slave Deeds Database Files - New Hanover County Slave Deeds - LibGuides at Cape Fear Community College

Results of a Cape Fear Community College project to document pre-Civil War slave records in New Hanover County, North Carolina.

Slave Emancipation through the Prism of Archives Records

Article by Joseph P. Reidy for Prologue: Special Issue on Federal Records and African American History.

Slave Information from Various Loudoun Co., VA Documents, 13 Dec 1809 to 30 June 1861

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.

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.

Slave Trading in the Old South (Amazon.com)

By Frederic Bancroft

Slavegenealogy.com - Rebuilding African American History

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.