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Indentured Servitude in the 17th-Century Americas: A Forgotten Chapter in Family History
When we think of early labor systems in the Americas, slavery usually takes center stage. But in the 17th century, another system played a huge
The Second Middle Passage: Genealogy and the Forced Migration Within America
When many people think of the slave trade, they picture ships crossing the Atlantic—the Middle Passage that carried millions of Africans to the Americas. But
Ship Manifests and the Lives of the Enslaved
When we think of ship manifests, we often picture tidy lists of passengers and goods crossing the Atlantic. But for millions of Africans forcibly transported
Domestic Slave Trade Manifests
When the United States banned the importation of enslaved Africans in 1808, demand for enslaved labor did not stop—it shifted. The domestic slave trade flourished,
Slaves in Ship Manifests
Ship manifests are invaluable tools for genealogists, but they are also sobering records of one of humanity’s darkest chapters—the transatlantic slave trade. From the 16th
South Central Chapter, Association of Professional Genealogists 