How AI describes Digital Library on American Slavery

The Digital Library on American Slavery (DLAS) at UNC Greensboro provides online access to a centralized collection of primary-source records about American slavery, including slave deeds, runaway slave notices, and race-and-slavery petitions. The site hosts several interconnected databases with images, full-text transcripts, descriptive metadata, and searchable indexes—such as People Not Property (over 10,000 documents and 50,000+ named individuals from 13 NC counties), NC Runaway Slave Notices (over 5,000 notices from 1751–1865), and the Race & Slavery Petitions Project (about 150,000 individuals across thousands of petitions). It is maintained by ERIT, University Libraries, UNCG, and offers contextual essays and an annotated bibliography to support scholarly research.