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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.

Sankofa-gen Wiki - Alabama

Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly. This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context.

The Alabama Supreme Court on Slaves

Between statehood and the end of the Civil War, the Alabama Supreme Court rendered numerous decisions on slavery. Most of them pertained to slaves as property, for property they were. Nevertheless, the law recognized slaves as persons under some circumstances, most notably when they were victims or perpetrators of crimes. These notes on decisions, arranged in topical order, reflect the variety of legal issues regarding slaves.