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Preserving nineteenth-century records in the Sierra Leone Public Archives (EAP782)

February 18, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

Census records, police records, court records, military records, school records and demographic records of births and deaths. The material is vital to an understanding of the social and cultural structure of the world’s first post-slavery society, and the experiences of men, women and children forcibly relocated from diverse areas across West Africa. Digital copies of [...]

Forebears

February 18, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

Forebears.io offers a range of Sierra Leone genealogical records including birth, baptism, marriage, divorce, death, and burial records. It also provides access to newspapers covering Sierra Leone and directories & gazetteers that might be useful for tracing family history. An example of what's available includes indexes to births of British citizens born overseas that were [...]

Slave Voyages

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more [...]

The Freedmen’s Bureau

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Record Group 105), also known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established in the War Department by an act of Congress on March 3, 1865. The Bureau was responsible for the supervision and management of all matters relating to the refugees and freedmen and lands abandoned or seized [...]

Edgefield, South Carolina, U.S., Slave Records, 1774-1866

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

Gloria Ramsey Lucas compiled this collection of more than 28,000 entries extracted from various records over a period of six years. The records referenced are primarily at the Edgefield County Archives in Edgefield, South Carolina. Other sources of information include the National Archives at Atlanta, the Augusta Genealogical Society, the Augusta Public Library, and the [...]

District of Columbia, U.S., Slave Owner Petitions, 1862-1863

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

In April of 1862 the U.S. government passed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. Petitions for compensation offered to slave owners whose slaves were emancipated by the act are contained in this database. These descriptions range from meeting minutes to petitions submitted and compensations awarded as well as additional administrative documents. The [...]

District of Columbia, U.S., Slave Emancipation Records, 1851-1863

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

NARA describes the records in this database as follows: “This microfilm publication reproduces all the records relating to slavery in the District of Columbia that were kept by the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia. These … include emancipation papers, manumission papers, 1857–63, and case papers relating to fugitive slaves, 1851–63.” This is [...]

California, U.S., African American Who’s Who, 1948

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

This database contains the 1948 edition of the Negro Who’s Who in California, featuring short biographical sketches of prominent African American residents of California. The 1948 edition of Negro Who’s Who in California contains biographical sketches of prominent African American men and women in the areas of early state Pioneers, Church and Pulpit, Professions, Business and Industry, Art [...]

Adams County, Mississippi, U.S., Slave Certificates, 1858-1861

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

This small collection contains records of slave certificates from 1858-1871 and is part of a book labeled “Record Book Adams County” that was found in the basement of the Adams County Courthouse in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1999. These certificates where required by law for all the slaves that were brought to Mississippi from any other [...]

1860 U.S. Federal Census – Slave Schedules

January 31, 2024 | Legacy Designs Studio

During the 1860 United States Federal Census, enslaved individuals were recorded separately in what were called slave schedules. This database provides details about those persons, including age, sex, and color, but unfortunately, most schedules omit personal names. Some enumerators did, however, list the given names of enslaved people—particularly those over one hundred years of age—which [...]