The subreddit r/slaveholders (redlib link) contains links to many online resources documenting “those that kept (or keep) people enslaved & those that benefited (or benefit) from it.”
Below are additional resources not listed in the subreddit:
- Categories for enslavers & slave traders on WikiTree.
- the final nail maps businesses within u.s. borders that engage in the torture & killing of animals for fur.
- Carter G. Woodson published Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830, Together with Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830 in 1924.
- This page lists all enslavers documented in the New Jersey Slavery Records database.
- Civil War Governors of Kentucky's entries for people often include slaveholder status as indicated by census records.
- Harvey Amani Whitfield's book Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes identifies the enslavers of the subjects in many cases.
- Part 1 of the book From Out of the Dark Past Their Eyes Implore Us: The Black Roots of Nelson County, Kentucky lists “NELSON CO., KY SLAVES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY SURNAME OF THE WHITE SLAVEOWNERS.”
- In the index to Carroll County, Mississippi Abstracts of Wills 1834-1875, Divorces 1857-1875, pages 65-67 provide page numbers for references to enslaved people in legal documents regarding the enslavers.
Some of the links in the subreddit are no longer working or otherwise restricted. Alternatives are listed here:
- Alternative link for “[u.s. empire] twitter account documents many of rhode island's slave owners & slave traders”
- archive.today link for “[german reich] 2002: German Banks Under Scrutiny For Handling of Slave-Labor Funds”
- archive.today link for “Mazrui family hangs on to power, to control land ownership at Coast”
- Wayback Machine link for “[u.s. empire] the enslavers among joe biden's ancestors”