Locate Primary Sources 

                       for researching slavery in New England 

National Liberty Memorial 

At least 820 African American soldiers and seamen (patriots) served in the Revolutionary War from Connecticut. 

https://libertyfunddc.com/community-support-3 

NESRI indexes census records, slave trade transactions, cemetery records, birth certifications, manumissions, ship inventories, newspaper accounts, private narratives, legal documents and many other sources. 

African American and Indian Patriots in the Revolutionary War - by  NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Easy to use, but be sure to corroborate. ( PG 253  CT begins )


Set up an account through https://researchitct.org/  - using your public  library card  


Search  Church,  Probate, Military, and land  records

Connecticut Courant Index, 1764 -1799

Contains thousands of entries searchable by Name, Town, or Subject taken from a slip index found in the History & Genealogy Reading Room of the Connecticut State Library


(set up an account through https://researchitct.org/ ) select Newspapers then Historical Hartford Courant 



New digital project on runaway slave ads in Connecticut. The database was designed by the students in COL370 / HIST211 as part of their final project for Digital History (Spring 2014). Taught at Wesleyan College by Joseph Yannielli. 

AmericanAncestors.org provides access to 1.4+ billion records spanning the United States, the British Isles, continental Europe, and beyond, including one of the most extensive online collections of early American genealogical records, the largest searchable collection of published genealogical research.

The SlaveVoyages website is a collaborative digital initiative that compiles and makes publicly accessible records of the largest slave trades in history. Search these records to learn about the broad origins and forced relocations of more than 12 million African people who were sent across the Atlantic in slave ships, and hundreds of thousands more who were trafficked within the Americas. Explore where they were taken, the numerous rebellions that occurred, the horrific loss of life during the voyages, the identities and nationalities of the perpetrators, and much more..


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