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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
CCRA_Documentation_20250417.pdf
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
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
LAC-BN_Documentation_20250414.pdf
Apr 30, 2025 - “Book of Negroes” (1783) from the Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester Papers
Adobe PDF - 102.3 KB - MD5: 6239eb063de88b547654aa36220d4260
"Book of Negroes" data documentation
SRMPR_Data_20250127.csv
Apr 30, 2025 - The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872
Comma Separated Values - 559.3 KB - MD5: 2c2a1b1e2344bbe424b2248697af34de
Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872 data
SRMPR_Documentation_20250127.pdf
Apr 30, 2025 - The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872
Adobe PDF - 118.6 KB - MD5: 611868c6ea3b9e6d1ed02283900fefe8
Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872 documentation
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