Rebellion is a Web documentary that explores the inspiring, true, and largely unknown story of John Horse and the Black Seminoles, a community of free blacks and fugitive slaves who in 1838 became the first black rebels to defeat American slavery.

This website contains information about people who lived in slavery on Thomas Jefferson's Virginia plantations. It provides access to a database of information on over six hundred individuals--details of life span, family structure, occupation, and transactions like purchases and sales.

Slaves identified in Charles Powell (Kentucky/Virginia) related documents.

Transcription of Negroes and Mulattoes who were inhabitants of the State of Indiana, prior to the first day of November, 1851. From the Hoosier Genealogy and History website.

The Mount Auburn Cemetery - thought to be the city's oldest cemetery open to black residents - was until recently overrun with honeysuckle vines, brambles and small trees. But today, a crew of inmates using hand tools has cleared enough underbrush that headstones are now visible, and the first step toward restoration is under way. Read More

Love Cemetery is the story of small community in the south decides to put together a bi-racial interfaith group to reclaim a bit of African American history.

New Mexico is considered a tri-cultural state; Anglo-Hispanic-Native American. There have been African Americans here from the beginning; just under-represented or simply ignored. How many African Americans are buried in Santa Fe, New Mexico? Who are they? What are their stories? We will honor those African Americans interred in Santa Fe.

Governor Davis signed SB2199 into law in September 2000. This new law required the Insurance Commissioner to request and obtain from California licensed insurers (life, property and casualty) records of slaveholder insurance policies issued during the slavery era. The bill required insurers to research and report policies that provided coverage to slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves. The Dept. of Insurance sent notices to 1357 insurers and reports approximately 92% response rate. The report, Slavery Era Insurance Registry is available online.