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Universities Studying Slavery is a multi-institutional collaboration sharing best practices and guiding principles about truth-telling projects addressing human bondage and racism in institutional histories.

Enslaved.org compiles numerous datasets to reconstruct the lives of people involved in the historical slave trade, enabling users to browse interconnected data, generate visualizations, and explore short biographies of enslaved and freed peoples.

SlaveVoyages.org is a digital memorial comprising nearly 50,000 Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slaving expeditions, providing information about vessels, routes, and the people they involved.

Freedom on the Move is a crowd-sourced database of fugitives from North American slavery, using newspaper wanted ads to "rediscover the stories of self-liberating people."

Related Project Sites

St. Louis Integrated Database of Enslavement

St. Louis Integrated Database of Enslavement (SLIDE) makes key records of enslavement in St. Louis searchable online. SLIDE includes records from the Freedom License database, covering Freedom Licenses filed in the county of St. Louis, Missouri between 1835 and 1865, emancipations registered in the St. Louis Circuit Court from 1817-1865, official court sales from 1828 to 1864, and the slave schedules of the 1850 and 1860 U.S. Census.

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