Harvard WorldMap: AfricaMap
From place names to trade routes, Adamawa to Voltaic tribes, this stunning site from Harvard’s Center for Geographical Analysis and its partners traces the slave trade.
VISIT SITEDigital Library on American Slavery
Collections here include petitions about 150,000 individuals from court and legislative documents, information on 35,000 slave-trade voyages, and North Carolina runaway-slave advertisements and deeds.
VISIT SITEFreedmen's Bureau Project
This volunteer project has indexed nearly 1.8 million individuals found in records from the Freedmen’s Bureau, created after the Civil War to assist formerly enslaved African Americans.
VISIT SITEInternational African American Museum Center for Family History
This handsome site is home to photos, videos, articles, a helpful blog and a growing collection of funeral programs, obituaries, historical documents and family histories.
VISIT SITEHeinOnline: Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law
Free registration unlocks access to 1.1 million pages from 11,110 volumes about slavery.
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