[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] The 1948 edition…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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…[...]
[vc_row gap="35"][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] 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,…[...]