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Illinois Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records 1722-1863

This database includes more than 2000 transactions found in governmental records involving the servitude and emancipation of Africans and, occasionally,Indians in the French and English eras of colonial Illinois (1722-1790) and African-Americans in the American period of Illinois (1790-1863).

Index to Parish Court Slave Emancipation Petitions, 1814-1843, Orleans Parish, Louisiana

Johnston County Heritage Center - Searchable Records Online

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.

Merseyside Maritime Museum

Liverpool, England.

Missouri Slave Data

Online searchable database and slave schedules.

North American Slave Narratives

From Documenting the American South.

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.

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.

Slave Ancestry Research

Tips on locating a African-American slave ancestors when the name of the slave owner is not known.

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 Emancipation through the Prism of Archives Records

Article by Joseph P. Reidy.

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 Records 1803-1820

Centre County, Pennsylvania. Online searchable index and scanned images.

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.

Slavery and Abolition - A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies