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Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry - Illinois Division of Insurance

Slavery Era Insurance Policies Registry by name and owner from 6 of 1700 insurers in the state of Illinois - policies issued to slaveholders for death or damage of their slaves that it wrote either directly or through a predecessor corporation during the slavery era; by name and owner.

Slavery Era Insurance Registry

Links to the California Department of Insurance’s report on the insurance of slaves by insurers still doing business in California, including the database of slave and slaveholder names and identifying information from around the United States.

Slavery in Pennsylvania

African American slavery in 18th and 19th century Pennsylvania.

Slavery in the North

History of African-American slavery in the northern colonies & states.

Slavery | American Civil War - History of Slavery

Slavery was becoming outdated. The British had abolished the slave trade in 1807, preferring morality to profits; gradually the old régimes of Europe were doing away with the last vestiges of serfdom.

South Carolina's Slave Heritage Uncovered in Nova Scotia

From the Augusta Chronicle.

St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project

Suing For Freedom In Kentucky

Website for two books about lawsuits for freedom filed by Kentucky slaves, with full name indices allowing family searches.

Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives

Texas Slavery Project

Database of slave and slaveholder populations in Texas during the Republic era (1837-45).

The American Slave Brig Creole - The Creole Research Center

Details about the slave revolt on board the American brig Creole.

The Dred Scott Case

The Geography of Slavery in Virginia

Digital collection of advertisements for runaway slaves, captured slaves & servants in 18th- & 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Over 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants from newspapers in Virginia & Maryland from 1736-1803. Keyword searchable database.

The History Guy: Slave Rebellions and Uprisings in the U.S.

The North Star: Tracing The Underground Railroad

The Sixteen Largest American Slaveholders From 1860 Slave Census Schedules

The sixteen largest county slaveholders in the 1860 US Census, holding at least 500 slaves in any one county.

The Slave Records of Lancaster County Collection, 1780-1849

Pennsylvania. From the Lancaster County Historical Society's archive. Description of index & entries in the Slave Register and indext to the Negro Entry Books. Limited to official records of slaves and their children registered with local/county officials.

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - A Database on CD-ROM

Contains the records of 27,233 transatlantic slave ship voyages made between 1595 and 1866 from all over Europe.

The Underground Rail Road: A Record Of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating The Hardships, Hair-breadth Escapes, And Death Struggles Of The Slaves In Their Efforts for Freedom

A book by William Still.

The Underground Railroad

From the National Geographic Society.