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Submitted by ccharity on Sat, 04/25/2009 - 20:16

Last Slave Cargo, article from the Lawrence Daily Journal, December 13, 1888

Contributed by Judy Sweets

Lawrence Daily Journal, Lawrence Kansas
13 December 1888

LAST SLAVE CARGO

A Colony of African Negroes Still Living on a Georgia Plantation

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Submitted by ccharity on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 08:41

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

Visit The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of two years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.

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Submitted by ccharity on Sun, 03/15/2009 - 18:35

1780 Slave Register, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Visit 1780 Slave Register, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Lists owner's names, number of slaves and township.

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Submitted by ccharity on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 07:25

Very Rare Slave Quilt Still Survives In Bristol

Slave-made and used quilts are very rare, but there is one here in Bristol. It was made by slave women on the Stoney Point plantation in what is now part of Bristol, Tenn. Read More

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Submitted by ccharity on Fri, 02/20/2009 - 07:20

Stories of early Natchez from a slave named Toney; his role in Revolt of 1781

Toney said he was "a great big boy" when he was taken from Africa -- the "old country." He held his hand four feet above the ground to display his height when he debarked a slave ship in Charleston. He said he was just big enough to plow. Read More

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Submitted by ccharity on Sat, 12/20/2008 - 08:02

Family matriarch bought husband

She saw him. She bought him. Then she married him. The backdrop for this couple's courtship was the early 19th century. Eli Whitney's cotton gin was new. Slave labor was woven into the fabric of the South. The Emancipation Proclamation hadn't been written. The Constitution didn't have a 14th Amendment which granted citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States." There was no Civil Rights Act. Read More

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