Additional Resources

This bibliography is based on the work of William L. Andrews, Series Editor of the DocSouth collection “North American Slave Narratives.” 

The journal of Slavery and Data Preservation (JSDP) is a digital academic journal that publishes original datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants drawn from the documents produced from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries. JSDP is also the method by which data is contributed to Enslaved.org.  

This is a complete online archive of full issues of William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper The Liberator (1831-1865), the most prominent periodical of radical Abolitionism in the united states of America.  

The Michigan Freedom Trail Commission preserves, protects and promotes the rich legacy of the Underground Railroad and the antislavery movement in Michigan.

In 1847, conflict erupted as enslavers from Kentucky and Missouri attempted to kidnap formerly enslaved from communities in Michigan.

Our physical location in downtown Cincinnati is just a few steps from the banks of the Ohio River, the great natural barrier that separated the slave states of the South from the free states of the North. Since opening in 2004, we have filled a substantial void in our nation’s cultural heritage. Rooted in the stories of the Underground Railroad, we illuminate the true meaning of inclusive freedom by presenting permanent and special exhibits that inspire, public programming that provoke dialogue and action, and educational resources that equip modern abolitionists. 

At the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, we talk about Harriet’s indirect connections to the Underground Railroad. We also acknowledge that much of the Underground Railroad activity through the city of Cincinnati went through the Black Church network. The percentage of the African American population in Cincinnati was larger than in other places, so this makes sense intuitively. However, documentation for illegal activity remains difficult to trace. These maps demonstrate an effort to denote the Underground Railroad Sites, the Abolitionists – both white and Black, and the Freedom Seekers who passed through Cincinnati in the 1830s-1850s.  

The objective of this project is to trace the routes used by indigenous peoples and African Americans as they engaged in self-liberation in North Carolina and Virginia. The project provides a starting point for access to information focused on the role of North Carolina and Virginia tribes in assisting enslaved African American freedom seekers in escaping on the Underground Railroad.  

Explore the voyages that relocated more than 12 million enslaved Africans across the world.