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​Major Databases

Freedmen's Bureau Project (see also FamilySearch.org for Freedmen's Bureau records)

Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Slavery Era Insurance Registry
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​Freedom on the Move (Cornell University)

Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery (Villanova)

Letters of Freedmen and Freedmen's Teachers (American Antiquarian Society)

Manuscript Collections Related to Slavery (New-York Historical Society)

Freedmen and Southern Society Project (University of Maryland)

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes (Slate)

​Digital Archive of Anti-Slavery Petitions (Harvard)

​​Race and Slavery Petitions Project (UNCG)

State Databases

Louisiana
Slave Biographies: Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy


Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Legacy of Slavery in Maryland
Searchable census records, pardon records, fugitive slave cases, manumissions, prison records, business records, and runaway slave advertisements, among many other materials.

Georgetown Slavery Archive


Missouri

​Missouri USCT

North Carolina
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements

Slave Deeds of North Carolina

Slave Deeds of Buncombe County, North Carolina

​Slave Deeds if Iredell County, North Carolina (PDF)


Pennsylvania
Slavery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Texas
Texas Runaway Slave Project

Virginia
Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names