African American Slave Trade: Ships & Records for Genealogy

By Gena Philibert-Ortega on March 3, 2014

Introduction: Gena Philibert-Ortega is a genealogist and author of the book “From the Family Kitchen.” In this guest blog post, Gena searches old newspapers and other online resources to learn more about the African slave trade in America. Throughout the course of the Atlantic Slave Trade, an estimated 12 million Africans were captured in... (Read More)