This is a growing list of websites worth checking out if you have liked exploring Freedom Seekers.
Have a site you would like listed? Contact us at freedom-seekers@history.wisc.edu and let us know.
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade
This website is a discovery hub that centers the lives of named enslaved and free[d] individuals who are made searchable and discoverable through a large and growing number of datasets and digital projects, including the trans-Atlantic slave trade database.
Freedom on the Move
This website features a large and easily searchable database of runaway advertisements from newspapers spanning the pre-revolutionary period all the way up to the U.S. Civil War.
Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century
This website features a searchable database of well over eight hundred newspaper advertisements placed by masters and owners seeking the capture and return of enslaved and bound people who had escaped in eighteenth century Britain.
Stolen Relations
This website is a tribally collaborative project at Brown University that seeks to illuminate and understand both the role the enslavement of Indigenous peoples played in settler colonialism and its impact on the present.
