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Restore the Ancestors Project

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.

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. 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.

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 Deeds Database Files - New Hanover County Slave Deeds - LibGuides at Cape Fear Community College

Results of a Cape Fear Community College project to document pre-Civil War slave records in New Hanover County, North Carolina.

Slave Emancipation through the Prism of Archives Records

Article by Joseph P. Reidy for Prologue: Special Issue on Federal Records and African American History.

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.

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 the Slave Trade | Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia

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

Slavery in Arkansas

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.

Slavery in Colonial Georgia | New Georgia Encyclopedia

Slavery in the North

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

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.

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.

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.