Search for a Black History Project
This website is a free, searchable directory for online history projects that can help further Black History research. This ongoing project was created to collect information about these digital Black History projects in order to benefit historians, genealogists, and family historians who are researching the lives of Black individuals and families.
406 Search Result(s)
| Project Name | Description | Creator(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Enslaved People in the Southeast | This collaborative online exhibit (2019) recognizes the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first Africans sold into bondage in the English Colonies. The exhibit documents the history of the enslaved in the Southeast and includes material related to the many varied aspects of enslavement, including paper documents and records as well as images. These provide valuable information about the entire infrastructure and system of enslavement as well as the individual and group experiences of enslaved people. Items submitted include photos, letters, bills of sale, emancipation documents, insurance and taxation documents, and maps indicating segregation zones. The exhibit will also explore the legacies of slavery by including documents and images related to convict lease labor and Jim Crow in the 20th century. Designed to illustrate the social complexity as well as the economic and human impact of the American ‘peculiar institution,’ in all its ugliness, these materials can guide the researchers in accurately depicting the institution of slavery in the Southeastern United States. | Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) |
| Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade | "Building a Linked Open Data Platform for the study and exploration of the historical slave trade." | Michigan State University |
| Enslavement to citizenship: African Americans in Irish slaveholder records 1670-1862 | Enslavement to citizenship is a public history project which seeks to identify Irish slaveholders and overseers in the U.S.A. but more importantly to find the names of African American families hidden in the records of Irish slaveholders prior to 1862. This project is dedicated to making it easier for African American families to access information about their ancestors, so that families can be reunited. | Martine Brennan |
| Examination Days: The New York African Free School Collection | A digital collection that provides information about the New York African Free School, an educational institution that educated the children of those who were enslaved. It was created in 1787 by the New York Manumission Society. Website contains biographies and historical information about the school. | New-York Historical Society |
| F.B. Eyes Digital Archive: FBI Files on African American Authors Obtained through the U.S. | A digital archive that provides access to 51 FBI files on African American authors and literary institutions. Includes authors such as Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones), Lucille Clifton, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Julian Mayfield, and more. | Dr. William J. Maxwell, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Feast Afrique | A platform curating and celebrating culinary history of West Africa and the diaspora via an open-source/free to access digital library with 250+ free to access food and drink books, hall of fame, and more. Focus is on the intellectual contributions of West Africans and its diaspora. | Ozoz Sokoh |
| First Blacks in America: The African Presence in the Dominican Republic | Provides information on the early presence of people of black African ancestry in La Española, starting in 1492. Project available in English and Spanish | CUNY Dominican Studies Institute |
| Florida: Leon County Enslaved Persons and Slaveholders | An indexing project which lists names of enslaved persons and slaveholders in Leon County, Florida. | American Origins LLC |