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Featured African American Historical Record Collections:

California, African American Who's Who, 1948NEW

U.S., Southeast Coastwise Inward and Outward Slave Manifests, 1790-1860UPDATE

Puerto Rico, Registro Central de Esclavos, 1872 (in Spanish)NEW

Washington D.C., Ex-Slave Pension Correspondence and Case Files, 1892-1922NEW

U.S., Interviews with Former Slaves, 1936-1938

U.S. Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865

U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records, 1865-1878

New Orleans, Louisiana, Slave Manifests, 1807-1860

Slave Certificates, 1858-1861

Slave Ads and Abstracts, 1823-1849

Slave Owner Petitions, 1862-1863

Slave Emancipation Records, 1851-1863