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The Papers of Roger B. Taney, 1792-1820
Roger B. Taney practiced law in his home state of Maryland long before he became an influential member of President Andrew Jackson's cabinet and later wrote the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford case (1857) as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Taney...
The Papers of John B. Minor, 1845-1893
John B. Minor joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1845 at the age of thirty-two. An 1834 graduate of the university, Minor began his teaching career following a decade in private practice. Minor, along with James P. Holcombe, directed the law program at UVA amidst national...
Leonidas Polk Family Papers
Leonidas Polk, first Bishop of Louisiana, founded the University of the South. Born to a wealthy planter family in North Carolina, Polk first attended West Point, but turned his attention toward the episcopacy. In the immediate antebellum period the Episcopal church spread south and west,...
The Case of Magdalena, the Former Slave
Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône 3B 858, and the opening folio is 178r. Marseille, 1407.
Prall family bible records
Records from the Prall family Bible, Kentucky Historical Society collection SC 1980. Included are birth and marriage dates related to Benjamin Prall's family and other manuscript material included with the Bible. The Bible was passed from Benjamin Prall to the enslaved Mary Ann Rowe (nee...
Thomas Gilman Collection
Thomas Gilman (1830-1911) purchased his freedom for $1,000 in 1852. Born into slavery in Tennessee, Gilman was brought to California in 1850 to work in the gold mines near Shaw’s Flat. Within two years he earned enough money to free himself.
Cameron Family Papers - Correspondence
Cameron family of Orange and Durham counties and Raleigh, N.C. Among antebellum North Carolina's largest landholders and slave holders, the Camerons also owned substantial plantations in Alabama and Mississippi. Prominent family members included Richard Bennehan (1743–1825), merchant; Duncan...
Carter Family Letterbook
Robert “King” Carter (1662/3-1731) was born in Lancaster, Virginia, the son of John Carter and Sarah Ludlow Carter. One of the wealthiest colonists in eighteenth-century Virginia, by the time of his death in 1732, Carter owned over 300,000 acres of land, 48 plantations, and over seven hundred...
Watson Family Papers: "Slave Notebook"
The Papers of the Watson family (MSS 530, Small Special Collections Library) of Louisa County, Virginia, is comprised of 10,000 items, including business and personal correspondence, ledger books, bank books, farm account books, and various memorandum books of this Louisa County family. Of...
Rice C. Ballard Papers
CONTENT WARNING: the contents of these papers include depictions of brutal violence and human trafficking by enslavers. Rice Carter Ballard (c. 1800–1860) was a slave trader based in Richmond, Va., who worked in partnership with the large slave trading firm of Isaac Franklin and John...
Nimrod Porter Papers
Farmer and sheriff in Maury County, Tenn. Diary and other records of Nimrod Porter. The diary, 1861–1871, records daily life during the Civil War and Reconstruction; weather; farm and business activities; operations of Union and Confederate armies and guerillas in Maury County and vicinity; news...
Francis Terry Leak Papers
Francis Terry Leak was a cotton planter and businessman of Tippah (now Benton) County, Miss. The collection includes manuscript volumes containing entries of various types, most of which are presumed to have been written by Francis Terry Leak. With the exception of one volume consisting chiefly...
United States Colored Troops Muster and Descriptive Roll for Kentucky the 7th, 8th and 9th Districts
This ledger contains information on the African American troops from part of the 7th district, and all of the 8th, and 9th Congressional Districts of Kentucky, who were mustered into the U.S. Army during the Civil War in 1864-65. The 7th district includes: Woodford, Franklin, Mercer, Boyle, and...
Student Anti-Slavery Rebellion 1835
The anti-slavery sentiment that was rising in New England created a moral dilemma for the faculty when the students requested approval to establish an anti-slavery society in 1835. The students believed that the moral teachings they were receiving demanded that they show their support for the...
George Wesley Johnson Farm Journal
Farm journal, 1853–1866, kept by George Wesley Johnson, a white merchant, postmaster, farmer, landowner, and enslaver in Davie County, North Carolina. The journal primarily documents daily farm operations, including what he planted, the methods he used, and the crops he yielded, as well as...
Thomas Ruffin Papers
CONTENT WARNING: the contents of these papers include depictions of brutal violence and human trafficking by enslavers. Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, planter, and politician, served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1813-1816; as judge of the...
Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery
As a part of the process to develop a future archive and website for Native Bound Unbound, we are using the transcription software and portal developed by From the Page for transcribing primary source documents. One of the goals of Native Bound Unbound is to gather documents related to...
Shelby County, AL Deed Books Referencing Enslaved People
Several of the Deed Books archived at the Shelby County Museum & Archives include mentions of enslaved individuals. Transcribing these pages will provide valuable insight into the historical significance of slavery and ensure accessibility to these records for all researchers and visitors.
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Loose Court Records Referencing Enslaved People
The Shelby County Museum & Archives houses over twenty thousand packets of Loose Court Case Records. Following a meticulous page-by-page examination of these cases, we have curated a collection focusing on cases involving enslaved individuals. The next phase of our project involves...
Taliaferro Black Lives
Materials related to 19th century Black Georgians in Taliaferro County, largely taken from archives of Alexander H. Stephens. A guide to this project, with regular updates, is maintained here: https://sites.dartmouth.edu/ahstephens/
Kentucky USCT Pension files
1,633 Black Catholics are buried in unmarked graves in St. Louis Cemetery in Louisville, KY. Many of the men served in the Union army during the Civil War (the US Colored Troops), as Buffalo Soldiers, and in World War I. This project collects military records, especially pension files, that...
SE Texas Slavery Deeds
The mission of the Lone Star Slavery Project is to research, image, transcribe, curate, and make digitally accessible Texas’s documentary record of its slave society. Website: https://digital.sfasu.edu/digital/collection/lonestarslave Please contact manager Kyle Ainsworth...
Alabama Supreme Court Case Files
When completed, this collection will contain all the original case files of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1820 through 1877. These records include interrogatories, exhibits, motions, and other details not included in the published rulings, though excerpts from the printed reports will be...
Cohabitation Records (Marriage Records)
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection In March 1866, the General Assembly passed “An Act Concerning Negroes and Persons of Color or of Mixed Blood,” which included a statute that recognized enslaved people who had...
Amanda of Color vs. Heisle Estate Freedom Suit
In 1841, Samuel Heisle (or Hisle) of Henry County, Kentucky left a will permitting his 36 enslaved people to hire themselves out and use the proceeds to purchase their freedom from his illegitimate son. Several of these Black Kentuckians were able to be manumitted. Others were not so...
Hawkins Family Papers
The Hawkins Family Papers chiefly document white male family members, including Philemon Hawkins (1752-1833), John Davis Hawkins (1781-1858), and William J. Hawkins (1819-1894), and others of Warren, Franklin, and Wake counties, N.C., who owned and managed plantations; enslaved people; served as...
Slave Sale 1859
This is two different records of the sale of slaves on one page of a large ledger. What I really need help with is the name in the second entry. I am getting Atorve, which is not a name I have ever heard and doesn't come up in a search but seems to be what the letters spell. I am getting the...
NE Texas Slavery Deeds
The mission of the Lone Star Slavery Project is to research, image, transcribe, curate, and make digitally accessible Texas’s documentary record of its slave society. Website: https://digital.sfasu.edu/digital/collection/lonestarslave Please contact manager Kyle Ainsworth...
Manigault Family Papers
The collection contains information about the people enslaved by the white Manigault family on their rice plantations, Silk Hope in Berkeley District, S.C., and Gowrie and East Hermitage on Argyle Island on the Savannah River in Georgia. Plantation journals kept between 1833 and 1897 by Charles...
Hayes Collection
Johnston and Wood family members owned and operated Hayes Plantation on the Albemarle Sound near Edenton, N.C. Members of the Johnston family include Gabriel Johnston (1699–1752), royal governor of the colony of North Carolina and planter; his brother Samuel Johnston (1702–1757),...
Haywood Family Papers
The Haywood family was a politically and socially influential white family in Raleigh, N.C., with plantations dependent on enslaved labor in Edgecombe County, N.C., and in Greene County and Marengo County, Alabama. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical...
Records of Slavery
These records contain volumes of birth records, manumission certificates, and court minutes covering the lives of enslaved people in the localities that would become New York City. Spanning the 17th and early 19th century, the majority of these materials were created with the passing of the...
Native Bound Unbound: English Language Documents
As a part of the process to develop a future archive and website for Native Bound Unbound, we are using the transcription software and portal developed by From the Page for transcribing primary source documents. This collection houses our current English-language documents, including colonial...
Neal Family Papers
The Neal Family Papers document white farmers and plantation owners, enslaved and free people of color, and freed people in Franklin County, N.C.; Fayette and Henderson counties, Tenn.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hinds County, Miss.; Waxahachie, Tex.; and other areas of the old Southwest in the 19th and...
Virginia Untold: Land Deeds
Virginia Untold provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Please help improve the discoverability of these sources by transcribing one of the project's many record types,...