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The Afrolumens Project exists to promote the collection, study and interpretation of data relating to African American enslavement, community and freedom in central Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to the idea that all Pennsylvania residents share a common history regardless of race, belief or gender identity.
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Northeast Slavery Records Index New!
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.
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Slavery was legalized in Pennsylvania in 1700 and in 1780 a gradual emancipation law was passed.