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This project is a collaboration between Fold3 (Formerly Footnote.com), the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, FamilySearch and Lowcountry Africana, to digitize every surviving estate inventory for Colonial and Charleston South Carolina from 1732 to 1872, as well as selected Bills of Sale for the same period, in a FREE collection.
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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.
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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 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.
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Results of a Cape Fear Community College project to document pre-Civil War slave records in New Hanover County, North Carolina.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Slavery Era Insurance Registry
Links to the California Department of Insurance
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Features Arkansas Slave Names, a downloadable spreadsheet listing enslaved people sortable by name, county, and slaveholder. The data is extracted from original records including deed books, newspaper ads, probate records, and Civil War-related documents.
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History of African-American slavery in the northern colonies & states.
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Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP)
A lineage society that is a non-profit, charitable 501(c)3 organization dedicated to the memory, education, and historic preservation of the artifacts and landmarks of slavery in the United States and its economic, psychological, and cultural impact on today's society.
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South Carolina Enslaved and Free Persons and Slaveholders
This database is an ongoing project to index the names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in South Carolina. Each entry refers to the source of the information.
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South Carolina: Barnwell County Enslaved and Free Persons and Slaveholders
The database currently contains information extracted from digitized images of the Inventories and Appraisal books of Barnwell County, SC. Search and organize enslaved persons and slaveholders.
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