[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]This database contains documents related to the ex-slave pension movement in the United States in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The idea of providing pensions to former…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The American Colonization Society was established in 1816 by a coalition of Upper South politicians and Northern and Southern ministers to establish a colony on the west coast…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]African American Genealogy Resources for Virginia[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]PUBLISHER: [pods field="publisher"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]REQUIRES MEMBERSHIP: [pods field="requires_paid_access"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]CLICK ICON TO EXPLORE IN SPATIAL.IO [pods field="in_world_experience"][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]LINK TO SOURCE: [pods field="url_link"][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network is an open access data repository of information on the identities of enslaved people in the Atlantic World. It includes the names,…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]When this project was begun in 2001, published information giving names of slaveholders was not readily available, and lists of the number of slaves they held were virtually…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The Northeast Slavery Records Index (NESRI) is an online searchable compilation of records that identify individual enslaved persons and enslavers in the states of New York, Maine, New…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Last Seen is recovering stories of families separated in the domestic slave trade. Formerly enslaved people placed these ads hoping to reconnect with family and loved ones for…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Freedom on the Move is a database of fugitives from North American slavery.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]With the advent of newspapers in the American colonies, enslavers posted “runaway ads” to try to…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) is an expanding resource compiling independent collections focused upon race and slavery in the American South, made searchable through a single,…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Since 2018, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org) has been serving the needs of scholars, genealogists, students, and members of the public interested in the people…[...]