7 March 2017
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A Guide to the Frederick County (VA.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1795-1871
A collection in the Library of Virginia.
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A Guide to the Westmoreland County (VA.) Free Negro and Slave Records, 1780-1863
A collection in the Library of Virginia.
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Adams County History - The Slaves of Adams County
Pennsylvania
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Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Search across the entire collection (more than four billion names) from one search box.
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Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania, County Slave Records 1780-1834 $
Original source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ancestry.com - Warwickshire, England, Parish Poor Law, 1546-1904 $
Original source: Warwickshire Parish Poor Law. Warwick, England: Warwickshire County Record Office. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Ball State University Libraries
Muncie, Indiana.
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Black Founders: The Free Black Community in the Early Republic
Examines the activities of newly-freed African Americans in the North as they struggled to forge organizations and institutions to promote their burgeoning communities and to attain equal rights in the face of slavery and racism.
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Centre County Government: Historical Records Imaging Project: Slave Records 1803-1820
Centre County, Pennsylvania. Online searchable index and scanned images.
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Communities in Common: Black History in Pennsylvania Study $
Ebook from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.
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Details about the slave revolt on board the American brig Creole.
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Denver Office of the Clerk and Recorder
For the City and County of Denver.
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Denver Office of the Clerk and Recorder
For the City and County of Denver.
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From the University of Houston
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From the University of Houston
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English Roots Family History Research
Professional genealogy research service to help you trace your English and Welsh family history. Based in the UK.
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From Slave Women to Free Women: The National Archives and Black Women's History in the Civil War Era
Article by Noralee Frankel for Prologue: Special Issue on Federal Records and African American History.
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Lafayette County Historical and Genealogical Society
Oxford, Mississippi.
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Legacies of British Slave-ownership
The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership has been established at UCL with the generous support of the Hutchins Center at Harvard. The Centre will build on two earlier projects based at UCL tracing the impact of slave-ownership on the formation of modern Britain: the ESRC-funded Legacies of British Slave-ownership project (2009-2012), and the ESRC and AHRC-funded Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 (2013-2015). The site has databases for the estates and maps of slave owners.
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Life Saving Medal Rolls and Citations
From the Life Saving Awards Research Society. Includes citations and medal roll information for the United Kingdom's Royal Humane Society's Bronze Medal awards for the years 1891 to 1918.
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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.
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Muncie, Indiana
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Muncie/Delaware County Digital Resource Library
Digital resources with cemetery records, court records, surnames, funeral home records, deeds, obits.
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Muncie/Delaware County Digital Resource Library
Digital resources with cemetery records, court records, surnames, funeral home records, deeds, obits.
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National Park Service - Network to Freedom
A national Underground Railroad program to coordinate preservation and education efforts nationwide and integrate local historical places, museums, and interpretive programs associated with the Underground Railroad into a mosaic of community, regional, and national stories.
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New York State Civil War Soldier Index | New York State Archives
Information includes more than 360,000 men who served in New York State Volunteer and the United States Sharpshooter units and the state's three regiments of United States Colored Troops during the Civil War.
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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.
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Putnam County District Library
Ottawa, Ohio.
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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.
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Slave Emancipation through the Prism of Archives Records
Article by Joseph P. Reidy for Prologue: Special Issue on Federal Records and African American History.
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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.
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Freedom Suits Case Files, 1814-1860
Online searchable database of nearly 300 legal petitions for freedom brought by or on behalf of persons held in slavery within the St. Louis area from 1814 to 1860.
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Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives
Benjamin Drew, a Boston abolitionist acting in cooperation with officers of the Canadian Anti-Slavery Society, visited various towns of Upper Canada around the middle 1850's, interviewing scores of refugees from the slave states and copying their words soon after they were spoken.
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The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas.
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The Revised Dred Scott Case Collection
From the Washington University Libraries and the Missouri State Archives.
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Runaway slave advertisements from 18th-century Virginia newspapers.
