African-American Resources for Massachusetts

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Online resources about slavery in Massachusetts:

History and General Resources

• History of Slavery in Massachusetts at Wikipedia.

• Introduction to Slavery in Massachusetts and New England: An approachable collection of videos, books, talks, podcasts, articles, and links. The Eleven Names Project.

• African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts

• A source that might be useful to researching some African American families and history in both Canada (New Brunswick) and Maine, whose descendants migrated at least to the Boston area. https://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Info/extras/Cornelison-William/William-Cornelison-research-v3.pdf

Resources by Location

Bristol County

• New Bedford was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Plymouth County

• "The Enslaved People of Eighteenth-Century Plymouth, Massachusetts" American Ancestors Magazine NEHGS, Summer 2023. American Ancestors (subscription)

Suffolk County

• Boston Slavery Database.

Slave Resources

1. Cape Ann Slavery, A History of Slavery in the Cape Ann area, Cape Ann, Gloucester, Essex, & additional communities of Massachusetts.
2. Cape Ann, Gloucester, MA, enslaved persons of record-names of Enslaved, & the Owners
3. Freed-Slaves of Cape Ann, Gloucester, & other areas of Massachusetts