Juneteenth

A database of fugitives from American Slavery. This database contains over 2000 ads for runaway enslaved individuals advertised in Milledgeville papers.

Since 2018, Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade (Enslaved.org) has been serving the needs of scholars, genealogists, students, and members of the public interested in the people of the historical slave trade. Enslaved.org is a discovery hub that helps users to search and find information from a large and growing number of datasets and digital projects. Researchers can learn from linking data, visualizing larger relations and movements, and connecting the traces of people from one dataset to the next.

The Colored Conventions Project (CCP) is a scholarly and community research project dedicated to bringing the seven decades-long history of nineteenth-century Black organizing to digital life. Mirroring the collective nature of the nineteenth-century Colored Conventions, CCP uses innovative, inclusive models and partnerships to locate, transcribe, and archive the documentary record related to this nearly forgotten history and to curate digital exhibits that highlight its stories, events and themes.

The Freedmens Bureau was established on March 3, 1864. During its eight-year existence, it was responsible for matters related to newly emancipated African Americans, as well as lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War. Records are available at Family Search, a genealogy website.