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Persistent Identifier
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doi:10.7910/DVN/WNOYWC |
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Publication Date
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2020-11-30 |
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Title
| Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820 |
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Author
| Hall, Gwendolyn MidloRutgers University |
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Point of Contact
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Journal of Slavery and Data Preservations (Michigan State University)
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Rutgers University) |
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Description
| Louisiana Slave Database (1719-1820) contains over 104,000 records, with 162 fields each containing descriptions of enslaved people found in original manuscript documents. African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners, slaves' testimony and emancipations, type of document(s) where they were found, and where to retrieve the original document are some of the major fields. The project included all the geographic areas now constituting the State of Louisiana through 1820 and also included some documents originating in or involving parts of what are now Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The project stopped in 1820 when descriptions of the African ethnicities of slaves became sparse in Louisiana at the same time as the volume of documents escalated. |
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Subject
| Arts and Humanities |
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Keyword
| Slavery
Alabama
Florida
Louisiana
Mississippi |
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Related Publication
| This data has been described in the following data paper: Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. "Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820." Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation 1, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.25335/jrtd-tz72. doi https://doi.org/10.25335/jrtd-tz72
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1992) isbn 978-0807119990 https://lsupress.org/books/detail/africans-in-colonial-louisiana/
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005) isbn 978-0-8078-5862-2 https://uncpress.org/book/9780807858622/slavery-and-african-ethnicities-in-the-americas/ |
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Language
| English; French; Castilian, Spanish |
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Depositor
| Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation |
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Deposit Date
| 2020-11-25 |
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Time Period
| Start Date: 1719; End Date: 1820 |
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Date of Collection
| Start Date: 1984; End Date: 1999 |
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Data Type
| Auction or Sale Notice; Bill of Sale, Invoice, or Receipt; Census or Register; Civil Document; Criminal Document; Freedom or Emancipation Certificate; Legislation or Decree; Membership List; Life History or Narrative; Runaway Advertisement; Sacramental or Religious Registry; Ship Registry, Log, or Manifest; Tax Record; Will and Testament |
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Data Source
| Louisiana Historical Center of Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans, Louisiana); New Orleans Historic Notarial Archives (New Orleans, Louisiana); Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse (New Roads, Louisiana); Other parish courthouses in Louisiana |
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Origin of Historical Sources
| The vast majority of the documents used are housed in Louisiana, but a few were consulted in archives in France and Spain and at the University of Texas in Austin. The documents used to develop this dataset were housed mainly in courthouses throughout Louisiana but a few were consulted in archives in France and Spain and at the University of Texas in Austin. Documents were in French, Spanish, and English with a few examples of Louisiana Creole. Depositories consulted include: Louisiana Historical Center of Louisiana State Museum (New Orleans, Louisiana), New Orleans Historic Notarial Archives (New Orleans, Louisiana), Pointe Coupee Parish Courthouse (New Roads, Louisiana) and other parish courthouses in Louisiana. |
