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Jun 17, 2025
FamilySearch International; Price, Joseph, 2025, "Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JSHPJT, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:p35nfryDRBIyutI3YewKMA== [fileUNF]
The 1900 full-count US census includes 2,080,169 Black Americans who were born prior to 1866, many of whom were formerly enslaved. This dataset includes the FamilySearch census transcriptions for these individuals including their name, gender, birthplace, birth year, and where they were living in 1900. The dataset also includes a link to a profile... |
Bergemann, Karl; Ekama, Kate; Fourie, Johan, 2025, "Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/R1IAFM, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements datasets comprise advertisements from two of the Cape’s largest advertising platforms: De Zuid Afrikaan (ZA), the first Cape Dutch newspaper in the colony, established in 1830 in response to a perceived lack of sympathy towards Dutch colonists from the predominantly English press at the Cape; and the Cape of G... |
Library and Archives Canada, 2025, "“Book of Negroes” (1783) from the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Papers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Q0OKL7, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:REZDBi86hKKuloIqwXRz0w== [fileUNF]
The “Book of Negroes” (original title) is a register in which were entered the names of Black people who evacuated New York on British ships to Nova Scotia from April to November 1783, following the American Revolution. Before the publication on November 30, 1782, of the preliminary articles of the Treaty of Paris, former enslaved persons that had... |
Andino, Jr., Rigoberto, 2025, "The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QHZQLT, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The 1872 Slave Registry dataset for Mayagüez offers a valuable resource for conducting research and analysis related to the history of slavery in Puerto Rico. This dataset, which is a subset of a larger registry that covers the entire island, provides detailed information on approximately 2,580 enslaved individuals in Mayagüez, the third largest sl... |
Barnes, Christopher A., 2025, "Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MLZHJZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:j7hkLzoFtS3lAXjs+VwfGg== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains records of enslaved African Americans manumitted between 1797 and 1825 by residents of Kings County, New York, better known today as the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. Prior to being incorporated into New York City in 1898, the independent towns and villages in Kings County maintained their own records, including some rela... |
Fogleman, Aaron; Mundim, Larissa; Lundberg, Alexander, 2025, "African Voices from the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VYH1W2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Kzerwet1uPuLgHxcjo2NTw== [fileUNF]
This dataset and the accompanying appendices present 157 additional published accounts from Brazil, namely those by Africans who participated in the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia. Following the revolt, the police conducted more than two hundred hearings of enslaved and free Creoles and Africans in the city. In the late twentieth century, the... |
Apr 30, 2025
Kerr, Molly; Fox, David, 2025, "Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington, Virginia, 1669-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2GPFX2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:+0M9I55nrI3E+BjKnPpPog== [fileUNF]
Memorializing the Enslaved in Arlington’s (MEA) dataset contains information on 2,770 enslaved people and their 464 enslavers in Arlington County, Virginia. Using 263 primary and secondary sources, the project gathered and described, when possible, the names, vital information, genders, occupations, and place of enslavement of these individuals. Th... |
Belden, Michelle; Hasbrouck, Allan; Rice, Walt; Smith, Carol, 2025, "Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQPXH6, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:c/f2jR8pKxAHLtD+7s1m0A== [fileUNF]
In 2006 Christ Church Preservation Trust undertook a project to enter the baptismal, marriage, and burial records of Christ Church, Philadelphia into a database to provide easier access to this information, so prized by genealogists and historians. The data entry was done by volunteers and part-time staff over a period of about seven years. This re... |
Apr 30, 2025
California Department of Insurance, 2025, "California Slavery Era Insurance Registry", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BP6JHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:DfI99Mc0Kv9a4RE1EJjLGw== [fileUNF]
California’s Slavery Era Insurance Registry is a dataset of 677 records of life insurance policies on enslaved people in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, whose lives enslavers insured through companies (or successor firms), still doing business in California in 2000. The same year, California... |
Dec 19, 2024
Marquez, John C., 2024, "Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VVBUCA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8jy0DBDoxeDupgXsZ2Cq4g== [fileUNF]
The Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623 dataset is a contribution to the study of urban slavery and the African diaspora in early modern Portugal. It presents biographical information, such as name, birthplace, legal status, and parish residence, of 571 enslaved and freed Africans (286 men, 285 women) in Lisbon who pursued marriage—288 c... |
