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Records of Enslaved People
With methodical research, you can often find slave records to fill out the story of ancestors. FamilySearch holds many such online records a…
Here is the ultimate step-by-step guide to tracing your African American roots and finding your slave ancestors.
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Federal Records that Help Identify Former Enslaved and Enslavers
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824,539 items from more than 1,000 U.S. archives, libraries, and museums.
The American Libraries collection - 3 million+ results
Most of the materials available through these sites are digitized versions of analog items.
Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation and Freedom
collection guides, finding aids, and inventories in Harvard's special collections and archives.
Some of America’s libraries, archives, and museums
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Brown University's digital archive offers over 150 historical documents and high-resolution images related to slavery and justice, allowing public exploration of early American history.
The North Carolina Digital Collections contain over 90,000 historic and recent photographs, state government publications, manuscripts, and other resources on topics related to North Carolina. The Collections are free and full-text searchable, and bring together content from the State Archives of No
Legal and personal documents related to the institution of slavery in the United States from 1757-1860s.
Biographical details of enslaved Virginians from unpublished historical records in its collections.
This resource provides a comprehensive guide for researching African American ancestry, including strategies for tracing ancestors both before and after the Civil War.
Ancestry's collection offers free access to records of enslaved people, including census schedules and emancipation registers, aiding genealogical research. Explore the collection
Provides a collection of online resources for African American genealogy research, covering various states and including cemetery records, census records, and information on slave owners.
It organizes profiles related to slaves, slave owners, and slavery events by location, including subcategories for different states and aspects of slavery.
Common historical nicknames can add challenges to family history research. Learn on Ancestry® how genealogists navigate unfamiliar variations for given names.
Personal names spelled phonetically
A name converter tool which is used to search for variants of a given name.
many states have conducted censuses to count their populations.
For a more complete beginning introduction, see U. S. Census Records Class Handout.
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Provides family historians and genealogists to search for their ancestors and for scholars to research a variety of topics related to slavery and Reconstruction in the Freedmen’s Bureau records.
They include labor contracts, marriage records, and more. Explore the collection and learn how to use these records for your research
Index and images of employment-related records
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Record Group 105), also known as the Freedmen’s Bureau
Insurance policies list provide by Cali Dep. of Insurance
Slavery-era insurance policies from Genealogy Trails
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A database containing information about the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War.
US Colored Troop Search
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Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
A guide to African American Newspapers
Newspapers were an important source of information during the period of American slavery, containing advertisements for the buying and selling of enslaved people, notices about escaped slaves, and other relevant information. By searching for keywords related to slavery and enslaved people, you may u
It features ads placed by formerly enslaved people seeking to reconnect with loved ones after emancipation
The "Lost Friends" database contains over 2,500 ads from the Southwestern Christian Advocate, where individuals sought loved ones lost in slavery.
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Database of runaway slave advertisements, articles and notices from newspapers published in Texas
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Find a Grave is a free resource for finding the final resting places of famous folks, friends and family members. With millions of names, it is an invaluable tool for genealogist and history buffs.
Name index to deaths recorded by the Social Security Administration beginning in 1962. Current as of February 28, 2014.
1936-2007 these records to track the earnings of US workers and determine benefit entitlements.
Collects autobiographies, biographies, church documents, sermons, histories, encyclopedias, and other published materials.
How to search the collection, analyze results, and what to do next,
A collection of images and transcripts
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The Library of Congress "Born in Slavery" collection features over 2,300 firsthand accounts and 500 photos from the Federal Writers' Project, documenting American slavery. nto American slavery.
Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Download a PDF of all people interviewed in the WPA Slave Narratives by name, with state, volume, part, and Project Gutenberg®* file number: People Interviewed in WPA Slave Narrative Volumes The di…
When referencing the slave trade we commonly envision domestic purchases and exchanges of plantation owners and traders culminating in the...
This article describes images of Coastwise Slave Manifests from Record Group 36, Department of the Treasury. Customs Service. Located in the National Archives Catalog.
Three databases below provide details of 36,000 trans-Atlantic slave voyages, 10,000 intra-American ventures, names and personal information.
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