We’re very pleased to offer a new and extremely unique data source: Runaway slave ads from six difference databases around the internet. Combining all these, we are now indexing and linking to over 43,000 slaves from 39,000 ads. Source include
- Cornell’s Freedom on the Move (20,519)
- Wesleyan’s University’s Runaway Connecticut (356)
- Maryland State Archives Legacy of Slavery (7,366)
- University of North Carolina’s Runaway Slave Archive (4,703)
- Eastern Texas University’s Runaway Slave Project (2,767)
- University of Virginia’s Geography of Slavery (3,712)
With the addition of this data, this site becomes the single best source for searching runaway slave ads.
Note that the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Law’s New York Slavery Records Index also has a very nice searchable database of runaway slave ads, though their strict copyright prevents us from using it here.
