Is there a place to upload information about slaves?

Question

I have ancestors that have bills of sale for Slaves. Names dates, places.  I thought this info could be helpful to Americans that are having issues with Searching roots of slaves.

Comments

Hi Suzi,

Thanks for asking your question. That type of information fits with the goals of the US Black Heritage Project. If you edit your post to add the black_heritage tag, folks from that project will be more likely to see and respond to your post.

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I have tried to do that since you posted your reply but I have failed.

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Great suggestion(s) Rick: I added the tag for you post Suzi.

And right now the Black Heritage Project is working towards the end of adding slave-holder info to enslaved person's profiles and vice versa. Have a look at this link:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1222212/announcing-the-usbh-heritage-exchange-program

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Thank you!  I think I will get the hang of this eventually.  Nice to have the help!  : ]

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Thanks.  I have been hoping for a clearing house.  I see plenty of slaves named in deeds.

Answer 1

This is where you should go first when you have information on slaves to share or other questions about how to proceed in developing slave profiles or slave owner profiles:

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:US_Black_Heritage:_Heritage_Exchange_Portal

Comments

thank you!

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You are welcome.  Please consider joining the US Black Heritage Project.  There is so much that needs to be done, and a number of different areas you can work on to help build profiles not only for former slaves, but for African-American notables and other people of African-American heritage.  Our goal is to develop 50,000 profiles this year for African-Americans to honor their lives and contributions to society, and to help those looking for ancestors and family.

Answer 2

If I had that info I would probably insert one person's name with the family (owners) name and location and then upload all the files with all the names and info you have. Also, I think this is a question for the WikiTree Tech in case they want to make a new section for data that is not attached to any profile.  https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/tech

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Hi Darrow, see the link below that Carolyn posted to the US Black Heritage Exchange Portal. We recently launched a system for how to process this kind of information.