The South Carolina Lowcountry has been called the "Ellis Island for Africans" notes this website focusing on Charleston, South Carolina's African American heritage. It has been estimated that as many as 40 to 60 percent of the Africans who were brought to America during the slave trade entered through ports in the Lowcountry.
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War.