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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

John Spencer Bassett, 1867-1928 Slavery and Servitude in the Colony of North Carolina.

From Documenting the American South.

Johnston County Heritage Center - Genealogical Research

Smithfield, North Carolina. We hold approximately 2,500 books, 800 reels of microfilm, 300 maps/atlases, 100,000 photographic images, 600 private collections of books and papers, and vertical files on genealogy, biography, and local history. The focus for genealogical records primarily includes the eastern half of North Carolina and the Virginia Tidewater region.

Landscape of Liberation - The African American Geography of Civil War Tennessee

An interactive map showing the landscape of emancipation as it unfolded from 1861 to 1865. Every point on the map is linked to primary documents and images that tell the story of people, places, and events.

Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870

Lost Friends Advertisements from the Southwestern Christian Advocate

The Lost Letters were letters written by loved ones searching for family members lost during slavery. It is a searchable database and contains letters written in the Advocate from November 1879 to December 1900 in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

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.

Maryland: Charles County Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders

An indexing project which lists names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in Charles County, Maryland

Mercy Street Revealed Blog - Kenyatta Berry

A series of blog posts about slavery by Kenyatta Berry.

Merseyside Maritime Museum

Liverpool, England.

Missouri Slave Data

Online searchable database and slave schedules.

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.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

National Park museum under construction in Cincinnati. Will contain records pertaining to all slavery-era persons. Collecting oral history on Underground Railroad sites and stories.

North American Slave Narratives

From Documenting the American South.

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements - UNCG University Libraries

Online access to all known runaway slave advertisements (more than 2300 items) published in North Carolina newspapers from 1751 to 1840.

North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association

Ontario Heritage Trust - Slavery to Freedom

During the 19th century, thousands of enslaved and many free African-Americans fled the United States and made their way to freedom in Canada. The province of Ontario was one of their primary destinations.

P.A. Miller - Slave Records from my research

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland.

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.