Explore Records

At the core of our database are records of EVENTS in the lives of enslaved people, such as labor, sales, manumissions, and running for freedom.

You can explore PERSON records to identify persons of African descent, enslavers, and Rutgers affiliates and namesakes with documented links to slavery. Person records provide biographical notes and link each individual to events and places in our dataset.

Start with PLACES to see events and persons related to different localities.

Each and every event is documented with a SOURCE. Many sources have been digitized, and you will see links to the digital facsimiles of the original documents. If a digital facsimile is not available, then the source information is displayed as a plain text bibliographic citation near the bottom of the event record.