Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.7910/DVN/5XQVRD |
Publication Date
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2022-12-21 |
Title
| Enslaved People of the John Marshall House, 1783-1835 |
Other Identifier
| JMH |
Author
| Clark, EmmaPreservation Virginia
Neuroth, LydiaPreservation Virginia, Library of Virginia |
Point of Contact
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Meika Downey (Preservation Virginia)
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservations (Michigan State University) |
Description
| This dataset documents the enslaved people owned by Chief Justice John Marshall (b. 1755, d. 1835) from 1783-1835, most of whom labored at his Richmond home. In his early life, Marshall inherited enslaved individuals from his father and through marriage to his wife, Mary Willis Ambler. Throughout his adult life he actively purchased and sold individuals, acquiring a portion of wealth doing so. When Marshall passed away in 1835, his daughter, Mary Marshall Harvie, inherited the property and those who labored on it. Marshall’s five remaining sons inherited the majority of Marshall’s enslaved holdings at rural Marshall properties. In 1911, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (today known as Preservation Virginia) took stewardship of the home and in 1913 opened the house as a public museum. APVA staff compiled research throughout the twentieth century for the purposes of interpreting Marshall, his family, the physical structure, and the material objects of the home. However, it has only been in the last several decades that Preservation Virginia has conducted more focused research to understand the enslaved people who lived and labored at the John Marshall House. For this project, names of these enslaved people were extracted from a number of sources compiled by Preservation Virginia. These sources are located in different archives and libraries but have been digitized and collected as digital files. While Marshall likely enslaved almost 300 people, this dataset focuses on 64 who lived and labored at the John Marshall House in Richmond, Virginia. |
Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
Keyword
| Slavery
Virginia |
Related Publication
| This data has been described in the following data article: Neuroth, Lydia, Emma Clark, and Meika Downey. "Enslaved People of the John Marshall House, 1783-1835." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 3 (2022): 10-17. doi tkpd-fb43 https://doi.org/10.25971/tkpd-fb43 |
Notes
| Contributors: Meika Downey, Preservation Virginia; Lea Lane, Preservation Virginia |
Language
| English |
Depositor
| Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation |
Deposit Date
| 2022-12-13 |
Time Period
| Start Date: 1783; End Date: 1835 |
Date of Collection
| Start Date: 2021; End Date: 2022 |
Data Type
| Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt; Contract; Freedom or Emancipation Certificate; Letter; Life History or Narrative; Inventory or Probate Record; Runaway Advertisement; Will and Testament |
Data Source
| "A Hint For The Abolitionists." Richmond Enquirer. May 27, 1845, 4. https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RE18450527.1.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------.; "An Eccentric White House Caller." Evening Star (Washington D.C.) April 20, 1881, 1.; "'Chief Justice' JOHN MARSHALL." Alexandria Gazette, July 5, 1870, 3.; Costa, Tom. Geography of Slavery in Virginia Database. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia, 2005. http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/.; "County Court." Alexandria Gazette, July 5, 1870, 3.; "Death of a Faithful Mammy Once Belonged to the Family of Chief Justice Marshall." Richmond Dispatch. January 29, 1901, 7. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85038614/1901-01-29/ed-1/seq-7/.; Fauquier County (Va), Will Book records, 1759-1967. Fauquier County Courthouse, Warrenton, Virginia.; "From Our War Correspondence." Daily Courier and Union (Syracuse, New York). March 3, 1862.; Henrico County (Va), Circuit Court Records, 1766-1879, Local Government Records Collection. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA.; Marshall, John. The Papers of John Marshall. Edited by Charles F. Hobson, Charles T. Cullen, Herbert Alan Johnson, 12 vols. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1974.; "Marshall Stories." Richmond Dispatch. February 3, 1901, 5. https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RD19010203.1.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------.; Munford, George Wythe. “Chapter XXI. Dinner at Buchanan’s Spring – The Barbecue Club”: 326-341. In The Two Parsons; Cupid's Sports; The Dream; and Jewels of Virginia. Richmond: J. D. K. Sleight, 1884.; "Notice." Alexandria Gazette, February 3, 1868, 3.; "Old 'CHIEF.'" Alexandria Gazette, March 14, 1885, 3.; “City of Richmond Wills,” abstracted and published by Benjamin B. Wiesiger III, 6-7. Richmond: B. B. Wiesiger III, 1983.; John Marshall Center for Constitutional History and Civics, Richmond, VA. |