- Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives
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- The testimony tends to stress well-known gross abuses, but some of the ex-slaves offer fresh insights into the working of the plantation system. These selections come from Benjamin Drew (ed.), The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada Related by Themselves (Boston, 1856), pages 260-270, 276-280, 301-305, 314-320.
- Texas Slavery Project
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- The "Texas Slavery Project" is the first-ever project of its kind in the United States and involves cataloging the names and biographies of slaves who lived in the state at any time. The unofficial estimate on the population of slaves in Texas was around 250,000, noted Walther, who is predicting that the project should produce at least a name and a sentence on 80 percent of the slaves.
- The African American Experience at Stratford: 1782
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- At Stratford and other plantations throughout the South, the Great House dominates both the physical and mental landscape. The lives of the owners have become part of the history of the region. Forgotten are the African-Americans who built and maintained the settings within which such families as the Lees lived.
- The African American Ogburns
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- That Ogburns were slave owners in the USA from the 18th century onwards is clearly evidenced by the collection of wills which are included elsewhere in this homepage. When the slaves in the South were freed in 1865 following the American Civil War, many of them took the family name of their former master as their own.
- The African Squadron
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- The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1820-1862.
- The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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- The African-American: A Journey from Slavery to Freedom is an exhibit which shows America in crisis and how that point in time was resolved.
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery
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- The Gilder Lehrman Center is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of information concerning all aspects of the Atlantic slave system and its destruction.
- The Henrietta Marie
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- A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie.
- The Jesuit Plantation Project
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- Maryland's Jesuit Plantations, 1650-1838
- The Louisiana Almanac - Plantations
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- Louisiana Plantations Open To The Public: Ashland-Belle Helene - Near Darrow- built in 1841- Open 9-5. Beau Fort Plantation - Near Natchitoches - built in 1830 - Open daily 1-4 by appointment. Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden - New Orleans - built in 1827.
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