This is the master project for enslaved persons in America. The profiles in this project may be incomplete.

This project's former name was American Slaves.

Naming conventions

Also see: Naming Conventions of US Slaves.

• First name: Ned
• Middle name: (blank)
• Last name: (blank)
• Birth surname: (blank)
• Display name: Ned, enslaved to Agnes Witt
• Also known as: List of other slave owners EX; Ned, enslaved to John Blue, Ned, enslaved to Fred Ugly
• About: Any other information that may be helpfull to other researchers
• Sources: All sources should be uploaded to the profile so other researchers can see it
• Ethnicity: "Black" or "Mulatto" etc (as per source)
• Occupation: Job title if known EX.. Worked in Main House, Farmer, Cotton Picker

A Note on documenting the names of enslaved persons. When extracting and indexing historical or genealogical data on American slaves, researchers will find that most kinds of records usually give that enslaved person a first name only. Since they were documented as property in most surviving records, a enslaved person's legal identity was the combination of his/her first name and the full name of his/her owner. For research purposes, the slave owners' complete names act as the best substitute for surnames of enslaved persons (even if a record gives both a first and last name, the slave owner's name will still be essential to tracing that enslaved person in other sources); this combination of enslaved person's first name and owner's full name can be as effective as the name of any free person in tracing of enslaved persons from record to record. For a lengthier discussion, see David E. Paterson, "A Perspective on Indexing Slaves' Names," The American Archivist, 64 (Spring/Summer 2001), 132-142.

http://www.afrigeneas.com/library/slaves_georgia.html

Plantation Projects

• Black Washingtons of Pope's Creek Plantation, Virginia
• White and Black Jeffersons
• Somerset Place Plantation, North Carolina
• Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

External links

• African names database
• List of slaves - Wikipedia
• Large slaveholders from 1860 and African American surname matches from 1870
• Slave names index - Index of names in historic newspapers
• Slave data collection - Afrigeneas
• WPA Slave Narratives - The first-person accounts of former slaves.
• The Lives of African-American Slaves in Carolina During the 18th Century
• Pennsylvania - The function of slave names
• Virginia Historical Society - Unknown no longer
• Afro-Louisiana history and genealogy
• Georgia 's Slave Population in Legal Records
• http://uneedspeed.net/~sdulac/PGSlaveConnections.htm
• New France 1760 - 1763 - Quebec Culture: includes names of Pawnee and Metis slaves
• Abstracts of North Carolina Wills
• A Study of the Africans and African Americans on Jamestown Island and at Green Spring, 1619-1803
• Standing in Way of Alabama Walmart: Slave Graves
• Kedzie: Saint Helena Island Slave
• African Origins information about the migration histories of Africans forcibly carried on slave ships into the Atlantic; database launched August 2012
• Virginia slaves freed after 1782
• Indexing of property of Major William Moore, Port Royal, August 20, 1689 ~16 slaves, most by name.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_slaves
• Beyond Kin Project
• https://enslaved.org/ “ Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.”
• The 1619 Project