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Discover historical documents including notices, petitions, bills of sale, newspapers, runaway ads, wills and other sources from the historical slave trade. Use this page to begin narrowing down source record results by selecting a source type within the "Explore By" section below. You may also select "View All Sources" to see all source records.


To learn more about source records, see our Controlled Vocabularies.

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