The Texas Runaway Slave Project is a database of over 2,500 runaway slave found in Texas archival documents. The Lone Star Slavery Project researchs, photographs, transcribes, curates, and make digitally accessible Texas’s documentary record of its slave society. The project focuses on 18 counties that accounted for 38 percent of the enslaved population of Texas in 1860. The only records online so far are for Nacogdoches County, but continue to check back. There will be more content soon!! The goal is to one day have hundreds of thousands of records documenting slavery online and available for research. https://cdm16649.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/lonestarslave
The Texas Runaway Slave Project is a database of runaway slave advertisements, articles and notices from newspapers published in Texas, as well as materials from court records, manuscript collections, and books. It documents more than 2,500 fugitive slaves from Texas. https://digital.sfasu.edu/digital/collection/RSP
