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Additional Historical Resources

No historical project stands alone. Those who find SLP useful are encouraged to browse this list for other historical databases, projects, and works that could be useful for them.

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Slavery & Abolition

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Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities

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Paleography

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Vocabulary

People of the Wye House

A searchable database of the enslaved people of the Wye House Plantation between 1770 and 1826.

The Wye House Plantation still stands today in Maryland, owned by the same family. The plantation had hundreds of enslaved individuals, for whom the historical record has left little elaboration. The Archaeology in Annapolis project at the University of Maryland has worked on the property since 2006 at the invitation of the Wye House owners, in order to bring the lives of the slaves to light through archaeological remains.

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English Paleography Tutorial

Created by Kathryn James, Rare Book Librarian at Yale University.

“Secretary hand” is the name for the dominant form of handwriting used by writers of the English language from the late 15th through the mid-17th century. This particular style was known as secretary hand because much of the work of writing was done by professional copyists, known variously as secretaries, clerks, scriveners or scribes.

Learn to read Secretary hand

Wikipedia: Original site of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. A premier institution devoted to African Diaspora materials.