Resources
Internet Resources
Reflections on Delmarva's Past -- Mike Dixon's blog, "focusing on the history and culture of the Peninsula and nearby points," which includes links to research websites and blogs.
African Roots Podcast — Podcast website created by Angela Y. Walton-Raji, author, lecturer and member of a variety of historical and genealogical organizations. Listen to the online podcasts and/or read the blog information.
Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society — the national organization website with information about membership, chapters, resources and more.
Federation of Genealogical Societies
NewspaperArchive.com — 18th, 19th and 20th century digitized newspaper sources, fully searchable, available through libraries and individual membership.
Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — a free online digital publishing initiative that provides internet access to eexts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature and culture. Includes thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews and songs; and hunderds of searchable slave narratives, antislavery tracts, memoirs, biographies, and histories.
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database — 35,000 documented voyages, fully searchable.
Ancestry.com — searchable U.S. Censuses 1790-1940; military records; city directories; municipal, county, state and federal records; land records; cemetery records; WPA former slave interviews; Canadian records and more. Fee based, though many public libraries offer this database to patrons.
Heritage Quest
Rootsweb
Family Search through Mormon Church
Christine’s African American Genealogy
Fulton Historical Newspaper project — free online searcher historical Central New York newspapers.
Godfrey Library, Connecticut — available for annual fees, gives access to hundreds of online resources, digitization projects, genealogical databases, thousands of digitized newspapers and more.
Accessible Archives — accessed through local and university libraries, and online membership, 18th and 19th century newspapers, African American newspapers, Civil War. Also available through membership at Godfrey’s, some public libraries and university libraries.
Samuel May Abolition Pamphlet Collection, Cornell University Library
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford Historical Society
New York Historical Society, Slavery in New York
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College — extensive Quaker and regional history archives. Links to the new online primary source database Quakers and Slavery which is cosponsored with Haverford College.
Library of Congress American Memory project — including African American historical resources, map, Women’s history, American culture, Civil War and more.
Slavery related documents in Delaware
Maryland State Archives Slavery Research and Digitization Project “Beneath the Underground” includes runaway advertisements, court docets, etc.
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery — enslaved Africans and their descendants, living in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean during the Colonial and Ante-Bellum Periods. Analyze and compare artifacts, deposits, and architectural plans from different sites at unprecedented levels of detail.
Virginia State Archives
Delaware Historical Society
Free African Americans in Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina & Virginia by Paul Heinegg
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System for African American Servicement
William Still, The Underground Rail Road — Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872, available online at http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/ABL/etext/ugrr/ugrrmain.html or http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15263
ProQuest Historical Newspapers — 18th, 19th and 20th century digitized newspapers, available at National Archives sites, available through some public and university libraries, the availability of specific newspapers depends on the ProQuest package utilized by public and university libraries.
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