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The following is a list of slave letters in the Special Collections Library at Duke University. These letters vary in content and most have no supporting information about the author. They do provide a glimpse into the lives of people who fought the odds to express themselves. Additional collections held in Special Collections Library which document slave life are listed in Retrieving African-American Women's History. The descriptions of the letters are linked to catalog records of the larger collections of which they are a part in order to provide a fuller descriptive context.

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Manuscript Resources on Plantation Society and Economy in the Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley. From Special Collections, LSU Libraries.

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I've been researching my maternal family tree on ancestry.com (you get two weeks free) and then I uploaded the GEDCOM file to this free hosting service. It's a useful site to host your tree. 

The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC, area; Regional Archives; and Presidential Libraries. ARC is a work in progress; currently over 63% of our records are described in ARC at the series level. ARC contains many descriptions of records of interest to genealogists and family historians, including: * applications for enrollment in Native American tribes * court records * fugitive slave cases * land records * military personnel records * naturalization records