Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time. Born in Slavery was made possible by a major gift from the Citigroup Foundation.
The Digital Library on American Slavery offers data on race and slavery extracted from eighteenth and nineteenth-century documents and processed over a period of eighteen years. The Digital Library contains detailed information on about 150,000 individuals, including slaves, free people of color, and whites. These data have been painstakingly extracted from 2,975 legislative petitions and 14,512 county court petitions, and from a wide range of related documents, including wills, inventories, deeds, bills of sale, depositions, court proceedings, amended petitions, among others. Buried in these documents are the names and other data on roughly 80,000 individual slaves, 8,000 free people of color, and 62,000 whites, both slave owners and non-slave owners.
Underwritten by a "We the People" grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Digital Library on American Slavery is a cooperative venture between the Race and Slavery Petitions Project and the Electronic Resources and Information Technology Department of University Libraries at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia.
Volume 365 - Searching for Ancestors Who Were Slaves
Volume 366 - History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-6, Volume 2
Volume 369 - Agnes Kane Callum, Slave Statistics of St. Mary's County Maryland, 1864, Commissioner George B. Dent
(1993)
Volume 670 - Mdslavery.net - The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland (external link)
Volume 762 - Prince George's County, Certificates of Freedom, 1806-1829
Volume 763 - Prince George's County, Freedom Affidavits, 1810-1850 and 1852-1862
Volume 764 - Prince George's County, Certificates of Freedom, Original, 1831-1863
Volume 774 - Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 776 - Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 789 - mdslaverycomm.net, The Commission to Coordinate the Study, Commemoration, and Impact of Slavery's History and Legacy in Maryland (external link)
Volume 805 - Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 812 - Montgomery County Slave Statistics, 1867-1868
Volume 813 - Howard County Certificates of Freedom, 1840-1863
Volume 814 - Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 816 - Anne Arundel County Court, Chattel Records, 1829-1838
Slave Manumissions Abstract: An index to records found at the Chester County, Pennsylvania, Archives
Black Loyalist is a repository of historical data about the African American loyalist refugees who left New York between April and November 1783 and whose names are recorded in the Book of Negroes. In this first stage, the site concentrates on providing biographical and demographic information for the largest cohort, about 1000 people from Norfolk Virginia and surrounding counties.
Legal documents related to the treatment of slaves living in the State of Delaware.