Abolitionism is the doctrine that slavery must be ended. It is supported by activities that might achieve this goal. It is largely of historic interest because nearly all nations have abolished slavery within their borders. This project recognizes abolitionists — supporters of this doctrine — and the families of abolitionists.In western Europe and the Americas abolitionism was a movement to end...
The Underground Railroad was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause. Notable profiles Dr. Anderson Ruffin Abbott Henry "Box" Brown John Brown Levi Coffin Frederick Douglass Calvin Fairbank Matilda Joslyn Gage ...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal American slave owners or slaveholders were owners of slaves in the United States which typically worked either as agriculture laborers or house servants. The practice was common until its abolition in 1865 with the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. For the time being, we are using this as the Slave...
British slave owners “The #FridayFact was not only wrongly judged, in numerous respects it was just wrong.” THE LONG ROAD TO ABOLITION ■ In 1807, parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act, effective throughout the British empire. ■ It wasn’t until 1838 that slavery was abolished in British colonies through the Slavery Abolition Act, giving all slaves in the British empire thei...
Return to USA Black Heritage Portal Return to USA Portal African, African-American and Caribbean thinkers have played a major role in defining the critical issues of our time, just as the cultures of Africans and their descendants have transformed the cultures of the Americas and the world. Source "The past is what makes the present coherent," said Afro-American writer James Baldwin, an...
Return to USA Portal Return to Afro-Americans throughout the Americas / Black History - Master Project UNDER CONSTRUCTION USA Black Heritage Portal USA Black Heritage Including the colonies prior to the Revolutionary war through 1863 Anything after 1865 should be listed and presented under the USA Portal. Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the day when federal troo...
Enslaved Persons in America 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 . Return to USA Black Heritage Portal Return to Afro-Americans throughout the Americas / Black History - Master Project Return to Africans in New Netherland (Manhattan, New Amsterdam, and environs Naming co...
Project Objective Identify and add the slaves who were Progenitors of the South African population to this project. For all other slaves please add them to the connected project South African Slaves . The VOC brought slaves to the Cape of Good Hope from mainly the Indian Ocean Basin, but also elsewhere. Countries included: Abyssinia, Angola, Bangladesh (Bengal?), East Indies (Indonesia), Guin...
Slavery at the Cape 1658-1834 The Slaves played an integral part in the evolution of the Cape's people. Slaves outnumbered burghers in the Cape Colony for most of the eighteenth century. Their Genes contributed to the physical evolvement of the population, and also brought diverse cultures, cuisine and traditions from their widespread countries of origin. They contributed enormously to all de...
Slavery in the United States was a form of slave labor which existed as a legal institution from the early colonial period. After the American Revolution, the northern states all abolished slavery, and Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory. However slavery gained new life with the cotton industry after 1800, and expanded into the Southwest. The import or export of slaves became...
In researching my family tree I have found ancestors who owned slaves in Barbados. I was able to view digitized records in Ancestry that provided details on the enslaved people, but nowhere to really link them to my tree. As a result, I thought I'd start a project to identify these people and their owners with the hope that a future user may be able to find information on their enslaved ancesto...
Born in a Slave Dwelling:This Project is for those who were born in a slave dwelling. Moreover this project is for genealogical purposes.Declaimer: This project is not endorsed by the Slave Dwelling Project .
Texas Revolution =This project is for those that participated on either side (Mexican or Texian) of the Texas Revolution.==Texas Revolution Overview==* Date(s): October 2, 1835 – April 21, 1836 *Location: Texas *Result: Treaties of Velasco and the formation of the Republic of Texas *Territorial changes: De facto Texan independence from the centralist Republic of Mexico * Strength: Texian Rebels...
The Free Soil Party was founded August 9-10, 1848, in Buffalo, New York. It included members of the “Conscience Whigs” Party, Democrats and members of the Liberty Party , which preceded it. The motto was, “Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men.” It was a third party, whose main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the Western territories acquired after the war with Mexic...
Geni naming conventions - enslaved Americans See the projects Geni naming conventions and Geni naming conventions - data entry for general guidance. Use ordinary case. Name Preference Settings can be used to change how names are displayed to your personal preference. Place the last name a person was born with in the Birth Surname field and the last name they died with in the Surname fie...
This is the master project for Slaves in Jamaica. Naming conventions First name : Ned Middle name : (blank) Last name : (blank) Birth surname : (blank) Display name : Ned, slave of Agnes Witt Also known as : List of other slave owners EX; Ned the slave of John Blue, Ned the slave of Fred Ugly About : Any other information that may be helpful to other researchers Sources : All...
"Abolitionism proposes to destroy the right and extinguish the principle of self-government for which our forefathers waged a seven years' bloody war, and upon which our whole system of free government is founded." -- Senator Stephen A. Douglas, in a speech in the Senate Chamber, March 3, 1854> "Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave states. Since there is no escaping your challenge, we accept i...
This project is a compilation of the research recently done for Washington County, Georgia.Washington County around established February 25, 1784 from the Creek Indian Cession of November 1, 1783. The county originally included all the territory "from the Cherokee Corner, north extending from the Ogeechee River to the Oconee River, south to Liberty County." It approximately ten times larger tha...
The objective of this project is to identify (forced) immigrants from India & Madagascar to Colonial America. Please start discussions, share resources, build trees, and add profiles to the project. Please create "related" projects for the Madagascar slave trade in other locations. And please ... invite collaborators to join in and contribute.==background==From Indian Slaves in Colonial America...
A project that attempts to follow the blood lines of black and mixed blood slaves of 17th century New Netherland, through their settlement of the land patents of New Jersey, to the smaller Ramapo Mountain area, and beyond. This examination makes use of the Geni World Tree. It also explores evidence that these lines were fractionally part of the the Ramapo culture Click on the map, here to the...
Move up to Armistead Name Study (James Lafayette)ARMISTEAD patriot of the American Revolution Born: Birthplace: Spy, revolutionary. Born into slavery to owner William Armistead around December 10, 1748, in New Kent, Virginia. In 1781, James Armistead volunteered to join the U.S. Army in order to fight for the American Revolution. His master granted him permission to join the revolutionary cau...
Early Black History to the Civil War* Slave Uprisings in Black History * Slave Rebellion The struggle's of Black People (the New Afrikan Nation) in North Amerika: Black People's History and How the United States of America won its Independence from Britain (and the British empire). "Every organized rebellion, even when thwarted by the whites and their offspring, struck fear into the whites and ...
Slave trade from Bosnia in the Middle Ages The slave trade from Bosnia is a long-term activity that has been of great importance in the economy of Dalmatian cities since ancient times. The status of slaves and their manipulation are regulated by city statutes. A significant change took place with the appearance of the Ottomans in Bosnia. Then the recruitment of slaves was redirected further eas...
In January 2022, the Washington Post published a remarkable database of every member of the United States Congress known to have enslaved other Americans -- a list containing 1,715 names. This project aims to: Add every member of Congress from that list, building new tree branches as needed Note the member of Congress' status as an enslaver on their profile Help add documentation to pr...
Sub Project to Slaves freed in America before the Emancipation Proclamation Freed in Pennsylvania before January 1, 1863 Notable Quotes "In Penn's new city of Philadelphia, African slaves were at work by 1684, and in rural Chester County by 1687. Between 1729 and 1758, Chester County had 104 slaves on 58 farms, with 70 percent of the slaveowners likely Quakers. By 1693, Africans were so num...