A database of 100,000 slaves brought to Louisiana in the 18th and 19th centuries. Information was gathered from courthouses in Louisiana, and archives in France, Spain and Texas. Includes information about African slave names, gender, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners, and slaves' testimony and emancipations.

Collects "books and articles that document the individual and collective story of African Americans struggling for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. This collection includes all the existing autobiographical narratives of fugitive and former slaves published as broadsides, pamphlets, or books in English up to 1920."

This online exhibit hosted at Northeastern University features the full text of a dozen published narratives.

This Vanderbilt University project identifies, collects, and catalogs materials related to slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal. Includes sample documents, such as manumission lists or plantation ledgers, by country or region. Fantastic source if you read Spanish or Portuguese.

This project from University College London provides details on individuals who were compensated under the 1833 Abolition Act. Find individuals by name or browse the "legacies" the fortunes held by public institutions today that are tied to the slave trade.

Approximately 100 books and pamphlets presenting an assortment of trials and cases, reports, arguments, accounts, examinations of cases and decisions, proceedings, journals, a letter, and other works of historical importance.

Offers a research guide to National Archives materials on the history of slavery, as well as some digitized documents.

Presents 1,200+ images from a variety of sources, including broadsides, engravings, maps, and more. Browse broad categories such as Pre‐Colonial Africa, plantation scenes, family life, and individual portraits.

Documents more than 36,000 voyages, searchable by ship or captain name, point of origin, and destination. Also includes an African names database and a set of numberical estimates for slave trafficking in different eras.

Sometime in the middle of July 1841, Nelson Hackett fled both Arkansas and slavery, setting off an international dispute that would ensure that Canada remained a safe refuge for those escaping bondage in the United States. The Nelson Hackett Project presents Hackett’s story not only to document a single man’s incredible struggle but also to explore how that one man activated a trans-Atlantic and biracial network of activists working to undermine the institution of slavery.