25 January 2023
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African American Experience Research Guide | The State Historical Society of Missouri
The story of the African American experience in Missouri is told through the personal papers of individuals and families as well as the records of black organizations and churches. Civil War pensions shed light on the aftermath of the war, while photographs, letters, scrapbooks, writings, and newspapers provide insight into the daily life of African Americans living in the state. The State Historical Society of Missouri is pleased to make available these rich resources that document their lives as Missourians.
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Provides access to descriptions of primary sources in the western United States, including correspondence, diaries or photographs. Digital reproductions of the materials are available in some cases. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana, Utah.
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More than 400 individuals were enslaved at Evergreen Plantation over the course of 150 years. Many were exceptionally skilled, working as long sawyers, coopers, carpenters, blacksmiths, engineers, seamstresses, and domestics. Some could trace their ancestry back multiple generations to the first slaves brought to the plantation. This diverse community was made up of Africans, the enslaved from the American South, and Creoles of Louisiana.
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Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
A digital academic journal that publishes datasets and accompanying data articles about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation builds from and expands upon the pioneering digital scholarship on the transatlantic slave trade. As such, the journal elevates curated data to a first-class publication status, providing scholarly review, recognition, and credit to those who undertake the intellectual work involved in generating, cleaning, contextualizing, and describing digital records relating to bondage and freedom in Africa and the diaspora.
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LaBGarrett Genealogy - Publications
A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina, and Selected Finding Aids, NGS Research in the States Series: Alabama, and more.
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LaBGarrett Genealogy | Specializing in African Ancestored Families in the South
Author, Teacher, Certified Genealogical Lecturer ℠, Certified Genealogist®, Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. Specializing in African Ancestored Families in the South.
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P.A. Miller - Slave Records from my research
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Maryland.
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Plantations List - They Had Names
African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia
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Pursuit of Our Heritage, LLC, a Massachusetts firm managed by Francine Crowley Griffis. Her specialties include identifying forgotten or missing individuals, recreating family histories and lineages, and conducting Forensic heirship, probate, and real estate research. A hobbyist for more than thirty years—practicing professionally for the past ten, Francine's research focuses mainly in the US, British Isles, Canada, France, and Portugal.
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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. All material on this website is transcribed from microfilm as faithfully as possible; however, errors may occur. The original sources are available at the Memphis & Shelby County Public Library.
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Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly. This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context.
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The Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The new SlaveVoyages website itself is the product of three years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.
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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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This website serves as a repository for information about South Carolina plantations and the people who lived and worked on them. It includes data for more than 2,000 SC plantations.
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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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South Carolina: Charleston Enslaved and Free Persons and Slaveholders
The database currently contains information extracted from digitized images of the Charleston, South Carolina Inventories, Appraisals and Sales Books. Search and organize enslaved persons and slaveholders.
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South Carolina: Greenville County Enslaved and Free Persons, and Slaveholders
The database currently contains information extracted from digitized images of the Inventories and Appraisal books of Greenville, SC. Search and organize enslaved persons and slaveholders.
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A selection of cases from the Records of the U.S. District Courts in the states of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
