Race & Slavery Petitions Project database
The Race & Slavery Petitions Project, started in 1991 and developed by the Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, “is designed to locate, collect, organize, and publish virtually all surviving legislative petitions, and a large selected group of county court petitions concerning slavery in the South. The project covers the period from the beginnings of statehood to the end of slavery (1770s to 1860s). Photocopies of the original documents are housed in the Race and Slavery Petitions Project Archive at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. To provide access to the wealth of information in the archive, a searchable database was created. It gives the names, status (slave or free), and color of petitioner[s], subject of petition, and other data, including county of origin, filing date, and disposition. It also includes a brief abstract for each document.”
Source: ARCHIVES mailing list, 02005 08 09
