Support the Project

Our mission is simple and urgent: document every site of enslavement and the families tied to them, enslaved and enslavers, so descendants can use historical evidence to reconstruct their lineages with confidence. Your support funds primary-source work (census, deeds, wills, probate, newspapers), careful transcription, and free public access to names.

We will never paywall names. Person and place pages remain free for descendants.


Where your support goes

  • Digitization & records access – subscriptions, image fees, onsite copies
  • Research time – county records, plantation records, plantation family cross-connections research
  • Hosting & maintenance – backups, security, availability and making the site ad-free
  • Respond to descendant requests – prioritize lookups and corrections