Tag: American Slavery

Sierra Leone, Civil Births and Deaths, 1802-2016

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Index of civil birth and death registration in Sierra Leone from 1802 to 2016. Records are organized chronologically by place. PUBLISHER: Family Search REQUIRES MEMBERSHIP: No CLICK ICON TO EXPLORE IN SPATIAL.IO  No LINK TO SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/3245338

Liberia, Vital Records, 1912-2017

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1912-2017 Collection of applications for marriage licenses, marriage licenses, marriage returns, documents certifying marriages from Liberia, and death records. Original records in the National Archives in Monrovia, Liberia and Ministry of health and social welfare, Liberia. PUBLISHER: Family Search REQUIRES MEMBERSHIP: No CLICK ICON TO EXPLORE IN SPATIAL.IO  No LINK TO SOURCE: https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2100287

Liberia, Monrovia, Census, 1843

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Index to the 1843 census for the town of Monrovia in the colony of Liberia. This census was included in a report of the 28th U.S. Congress entitled, "Information relative to the operations of the United States squadron on the west coast of Africa, the condition of the American colonies there, and the commerce of [...]

Maryland Slavery Commission

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Under the auspices of the Slavery Commission, the Maryland State Archives is preparing a series of volumes in the Archives of Maryland series relating to the history of slavery in Maryland. Completed and in-progress volumes include: PUBLISHER: Maryland State REQUIRES MEMBERSHIP: No CLICK ICON TO EXPLORE IN SPATIAL.IO  No LINK TO SOURCE: https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/commission.html

Legacy of Slavery Maryland

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The Beneath the Underground database features entries of over 400,000 individuals including, white and black, slave owners, enslaved and free individuals from primarily the years of 1830 through 1880 to review. Listed below are the record series currently searchable online. Click on the record series name to view the titles available in that record series. [...]

District of Columbia Court and Emancipation Records, 1820-1863

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Images of National Archives records from three the microfilm publications. Records of the Board of Commissioners for the Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia, 1862-1863, M520, 4 rolls in Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, RG 217, Records of the United States District Court for the District of [...]

Washington D.C., Pension Correspondence and Case Files of Formerly Enslaved People, 1892-1922

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This database contains documents related to the ex-slave pension movement in the United States in the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. The idea of providing pensions to former slaves in the United States took root after the Civil War, inspired in part by the pensions provided for veterans. The first slave pension bill was [...]

Virginia Emigrants to Liberia

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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 of Africa for the voluntary emigration of free Blacks from the United States. Many supporters hoped that reducing the free Black population would promote manumissions in the [...]

Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network

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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, ethnicities, skills, occupations, and illnesses of individual slaves. Phase one of a multi-phase project is presented here. Users of the website can access three data sets: one [...]