Web Resource: Freedom Suits and Slave Petitions
A number of projects now offer digitized materials about African Americans. The following provides a partial list of websites that contain slave petitions and freedom suits.
Freedom Suits Case Files, St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family (early capital legal documents, including hundreds of slave petitions; background about the site is here)
Race and Slavery Petitions Project, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
York County Freedom Suits (Virtual Jamestown)
http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/RAS
Midlo-Hall
Schweninger
http://www.memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
http://freedomonthemove.org/
http://www.teachingushistory.org/documents/DraytonInventory.htm
Harvard: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/antislaverypetitionsma
http://unknownnolonger.vahistorical.org/
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/esss/
http://adamrothman.georgetown.domains/gsa/ // http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/
Metalist: http://slavebiographies.org/resources.php
LOC Slaves and the Courts
Black wealth site
Emancipation Petitions, Washington DC
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/2016/02/03/virginia-…
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/arts/design/new-databases-offer-insig…
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/fpoc/ Free People of Color in Louisiana
Freedman's Bureau Project http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/
http://earlydc.tumblr.com/post/135658694041/slave-pass-december-20-1811…
metalist: http://slavebiographies.org/resources.php
metalist: http://www.nypl.org/about/locations/schomburg/digital-schomburg/links
http://www.tubmaninstitute.ca/the_shadd_collection
http://www.virginiamemory.com/transcribe/
Manumission documents?
http://coloredconventions.org/transcribe-minutes
http://xula.libguides.com/CharlesHeartmanCollectionand
http://cdm16948.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16948col…
