Slavery in Texas

People of African descent have been inextricably linked to the history of the land now known as Texas since the earliest days of colonization

The Texas Slavery Project examines the spread of American slavery into the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the decades between 1820 and 1850.

This website offers a digital visual history of Matagorda County by photographing archival documents and historical sites in the region. It expands on contemporary understandings of slavery in Texas during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The mission of the Lone Star Slavery Project is to research, image, transcribe, curate, and make digitally accessible Texas’s documentary record of its slave society.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is an educational and social justice initiative dedicated to supporting the preservation of Black settlement landscapes, heritage, and grassroots preservation practices through research.

Our mission is to investigate Rice's past with respect to slavery, segregation, and racial injustice; to encourage frank and honest discussion about that past; and to identify suggestions for Rice's future.

Freedom on the Move is a database of fugitives from North American slavery.

With the TIPHC mission to collect, preserve, study and make available research information, records, documents, and artifacts relating to the history, culture, and experiences of African Americans, various research projects will be conducted to provide the community materials for awareness and educational purposes.

Texas State Historical Association