- The 1850 and 1860 Census, Schedule 2, Slave Inhabitants (David E. Paterson)
- African
American Voices (Digital History)
Includes excerpts from a number of slave narratives.
- AfriGeneas Library
Slave Records are at the bottom of the page.
- Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1719-1820
Searchable database of "historical data from over 100,000 descriptions of slaves found in documents in Louisiana between 1718 and 1821...."
- American
Slave Narratives (University of Virginia)
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (Jerome S. Handler & Michael L. Tuite Jr.)
- Born
in Slavery (American Memory, Library of Congress)
2,300 slave narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938, with 500 photographs and a very
informative introduction by Norman R. Yetman.
Access by keyword, personal name, state or volume.
- Case Study: Determining Maternity by Correlating Records of Alpheus Beall's Slaves (David E. Paterson)
- Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad ... with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives.... (2nd ed.; Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1880) [ 1876 edition ]
- Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records, 1722–1863 (Illinois State Archives)
- Freedmen
and Southern Society Project (University of
Maryland History Department)
Most pages contain sample primary source documents,
including letters.
- The Fugitive Slave Law, and its Victims, 1856
- The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
A digital collection of advertisements for captured and runaway slaves and servants in VA newspapers, with substantial additional documents and resources.
- Georgia's
Slave Population in Legal Records: Where and How
to Look
An introduction to courthouse resources
by David E. Paterson.
- Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870 (Tom Blake)
- Living with the Hydra:
The Documentation of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Federal Records (Walter B. Hill, Jr.) [ Part 2 ]
- Looking at Slavery: Going to the Sources
Issue two, December, 2004, of History Now: American History Online from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
- North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South)
"... includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920"
- Quaker Accounts of the Underground Railroad in the Region of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting
- Records that Pertain to American Slavery and the International Slave Trade (Walter B. Hill, Jr., The National Archives)
- Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad (National Park Service)
- Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection (Cornell University Library)
In addition to "sermons..., local Anti-Slavery Society newsletters..., freedmen's testimonies, broadsides..." the collection includes biographies, letters, historical material at all levels from local to national, church publications, colonization material, etc. Valuable digital collection; fully searchable.
- Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad: From Slavery to Freedom. (New York: Macmillan, 1898) [ Another copy ]
- Siebert Material
- Slave Archival Collection Database (International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry)
- Slave
Data Collection (AfriGeneas)
- Slavery in Virginia: A Selected Bibliography (The Library of Virginia)
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 (The Library of Congress)
Use the subject index to identify individuals (slaves, slaveholders, etc.) about whom there is information
- Still, William. The Underground Railroad. (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872) [Another copy]
- The Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland (Maryland State Archives)
- Unravelling the 1850 and 1860 Slave Schedules (Spencer McCall)
- Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
"All known recordings of former slaves in the American Folklife Center" at the Library of Congress.
- Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (Emory University)
- Working Backward (Franklin Carter Smith & Emily Anne Croom)
Going backward from the 1870 census, using population schedules and slave schedules.
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