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Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census 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...
FamilySearchEnslavedTutorial1900census.pdf Jun 17, 2025 - Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census Adobe PDF - 2.0 MB - MD5: a51b433f9d9935b39663ca40c1cfacbf Instructions to download "Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census" dataset
FS-1900_Data_20250612.csv Jun 13, 2025 - Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census Comma Separated Values - 471.6 MB - MD5: 06edc3f813aa72861e0dafa6d703e7e6 "Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census" dataset
FS-1900_Documentation_20250609.tab Jun 9, 2025 - Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census Tabular Data - 802 B - 3 Variables, 10 Observations - UNF:6:v4KobkOSgYShRLAcYM4HRg== "Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census" data documentation
Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842 Apr 30, 2025 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...
CCRA_Documentation_20250417.pdf Apr 30, 2025 - Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842 Adobe PDF - 21.7 KB - MD5: 02d500f54b0b1268f33a8455140a593a Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements data documentation
CCRA-GG_Data_20250417.csv Apr 30, 2025 - Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842 Comma Separated Values - 197.8 KB - MD5: abe9988c8bed9216c65c80322cc5f82c Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements Government Gazette data
CCRA-ZA_Data_20250417.csv Apr 30, 2025 - Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842 Comma Separated Values - 316.9 KB - MD5: 7327761e9388d334571f91605ec8b044 Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements De Zuid Afrikaan data
“Book of Negroes” (1783) from the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Papers Apr 30, 2025 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...
LAC-BN_Data_20250414.tab Apr 30, 2025 - “Book of Negroes” (1783) from the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Papers Tabular Data - 1010.5 KB - 28 Variables, 2831 Observations - UNF:6:REZDBi86hKKuloIqwXRz0w== "Book of Negroes" data

Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census

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...

FamilySearchEnslavedTutorial1900census.pdf

Jun 17, 2025 - Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census

Adobe PDF - 2.0 MB -

Instructions to download "Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census" dataset

FS-1900_Data_20250612.csv

Jun 13, 2025 - Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census

Comma Separated Values - 471.6 MB -

"Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census" dataset

FS-1900_Documentation_20250609.tab

Jun 9, 2025 - Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census

Tabular Data - 802 B - 3 Variables, 10 Observations -

"Two Million Black Americans Born Prior to Emancipation in the 1900 U.S. Census" data documentation

Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842

Apr 30, 2025

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...

CCRA_Documentation_20250417.pdf

Apr 30, 2025 - Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842

Adobe PDF - 21.7 KB -

Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements data documentation

CCRA-GG_Data_20250417.csv

Apr 30, 2025 - Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842

Comma Separated Values - 197.8 KB -

Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements Government Gazette data

CCRA-ZA_Data_20250417.csv

Apr 30, 2025 - Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements, 1830-1842

Comma Separated Values - 316.9 KB -

Cape Colony Runaway Advertisements De Zuid Afrikaan data

“Book of Negroes” (1783) from the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Papers

Apr 30, 2025

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...

LAC-BN_Data_20250414.tab

Apr 30, 2025 - “Book of Negroes” (1783) from the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Papers

Tabular Data - 1010.5 KB - 28 Variables, 2831 Observations -

"Book of Negroes" data

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