Franklin and Armfield Slave Sales in New Orleans, 1828-1836

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Rothman, Joshua D., 2022, "Franklin and Armfield Slave Sales in New Orleans, 1828-1836", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JYGE5F, Harvard Dataverse, V1

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Description	The company known as Franklin & Armfield was the largest slave-trading business in the United States during its years of operation from 1828 to 1836, and it may have been the largest in American history. Partners and agents of the company sold more than 1,600 enslaved people in New Orleans, which housed the largest market for enslaved people in the entire country. The dataset included here contains detailed information about those sales, documenting the names of the enslaved and the individuals who purchased them, some demographic and physical descriptions of the enslaved, the terms of their sales, and other relevant matters. Most information was extracted from records kept by notaries who recorded many of the slave sales in the city. (2022-08-31)
Subject	Arts and Humanities
Keyword	Slavery, New Orleans, LA
Related Publication	Joshua D. Rothman, The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America (New York: Basic Books, 2021).
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Persistent Identifier	doi:10.7910/DVN/JYGE5F
Publication Date	2022-08-31
Title	Franklin and Armfield Slave Sales in New Orleans, 1828-1836
Author	Rothman, Joshua D.University of Alabama
Point of Contact	Use email button above to contact. Rothman, Joshua D. (University of Alabama) Journal of Slavery and Data Preservations (Michigan State University)
Description	The company known as Franklin & Armfield was the largest slave-trading business in the United States during its years of operation from 1828 to 1836, and it may have been the largest in American history. Partners and agents of the company sold more than 1,600 enslaved people in New Orleans, which housed the largest market for enslaved people in the entire country. The dataset included here contains detailed information about those sales, documenting the names of the enslaved and the individuals who purchased them, some demographic and physical descriptions of the enslaved, the terms of their sales, and other relevant matters. Most information was extracted from records kept by notaries who recorded many of the slave sales in the city. (2022-08-31)
Subject	Arts and Humanities
Keyword	Slavery New Orleans, LA
Related Publication	Joshua D. Rothman, The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America (New York: Basic Books, 2021). Joshua D. Rothman, “The American Life of Jourdan Saunders, Slave Trader,” Journal of Southern History, Vol. 88, no. 2 (May 2022): 227-256. https://doi.org/10.1353/soh.2022.0054 This data has been described in the following data article: Rothman, Joshua D. "Franklin and Armfield Slave Sales in New Orleans, 1828-1836." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 3, no. 2 (2022): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.25971/YTXZ-JW71
Language	English
Depositor	Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
Deposit Date	2022-08-31
Time Period	Start Date: 1828; End Date: 1836
Date of Collection	Start Date: 2015; End Date: 2015
Data Type	Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt; Civil Documents; Contracts
Data Source	Notarial books of Joseph Arnaud, William Boswell, Louis Thimelet Caire, Hilary Breton Cenas, William Christy, Joseph Cuvillier, Felix DeArmas, Octave DeArmas, John Duncan, Louis Feraud, Hugh Gordon, Felix Grima, Charles Janin, Gustave LeGardeur, Sr., Adolphe Mazureau, Branch Miller, Felix Pedesclaux, Hughes Pedesclaux, Carlile Pollack, and Theodore Seghers, Notarial Archives Research Center, Office of the Clerk of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, 1340 Poydras St., Suite 360, New Orleans, Louisiana.; New Orleans Conveyance Books, Land Records Division, 1340 Poydras St., Fourth Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana.; Case Records of Louisiana First Judicial District, New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana.
Origin of Historical Sources	See above.

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Geographic Coverage	United States, Louisiana, New Orelans

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Journal	Volume 3 Issue 2 2022-08
Type of Article	data paper

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