Resources on Slavery in New England

Learn more about New England Slavery 

Locate  Primary Documents 

A strategy to interpret primary documents 

Understand the Institution of Slavery in New  England

Colonial West Hartford 

• West Hartford Early Marriage Records 1727-1776

• https://www.slavevoyages.org/

• National Archives: Slave Trade

• New York Public Library African Resistance to the Slave Trade

• https://libguides.brown.edu/slavery

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/massive-new-database-connect-billions-historic-records-tell-full-story-american-slavery-180973721/

• Yale Slavery and Abolition Project https://slavery.yale.edu/links/external-databases

•  Slave Auctions http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/enslavement/text2/slaveauctions.pdf

• Noah Webster The Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry, 1793 Connecticut Courant Advertisement

• Noah Webster, The Effects of Slavery on Morals and Industry, 1793

• Runaways: Adverts 250 Project : Advertising which includes adds about selling enslaved people and runaways as well as other items which help us to understand the context of the times.