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Kurtz, William B.; Neumann, Brian C.; Anderson, Sarah; Bowler, Casey; Davidson, Cole; Diamond, Jane; Gilmer, Amelia; Jacobs, Adam; Snodgrass, Lily; Valentine, Annie; Wald, Amelia; Wallace, Matthew; Weisenfluh, Matthew; Wright, Joseph; Nau Center for Civil War History, 2021, "Black Virginians in Blue: Black Union Soldiers and Sailors from Albemarle County, Virginia", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ADNESN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:fIKO1bkFklbztSxNiVtm9Q== [fileUNF]
The “Black Virginians in Blue” dataset documents information on Black men from Albemarle County, Virginia, who served in the Union military during the Civil War. The dataset contains a wide range of information, including date of birth, occupation, residence, date of enlistment, regiment, rank, and date and place of death. The data sheds light on B... |
May 28, 2021
Grinberg, Keila; Muaze, Mariana, 2021, "A Year of Slavery: Jornal do Commercio, 1840", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZUKPVX, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:j6ssBbJpAGje7/42K3H8AA== [fileUNF]
This dataset features a complete transcription and associated extracted data from 6,540 classified advertisements about the sale, purchase, rental, and auction of enslaved persons and slave labor, as well as the flight or disappearance of slaves and Free Africans, published in the Jornal do Commercio over the course of 1840. Extracted data includes... |
May 28, 2021
Williams, Daryle, 2021, "Free Africans and Concessionaires, Rio de Janeiro, 1860", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XMDKGB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:jISnS95q+LVWsayPD3IvAg== [fileUNF]
This dataset is drawn from an enhanced transcription of "Relação de todos os Africanos livres que athé o presente data ainda se acham sob a responsabilidade dos particulares a quem foram confiados. Extrahidos em o mez de Março de 1860," an 111-page hand-written nominal registry of 849 private concessionaires (also known as “guardians”) and 1,342 Fr... |
May 28, 2021
Williams, Daryle, 2021, "Free African Disappearances, Rio de Janeiro, 1835-1863", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PKKHIN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:R8TjCB22beTW/VYWfaSJeA== [fileUNF]
This dataset documents the public notice of 660 Free African “disappearances,” including flights, kidnappings, thefts, and “seductions,” published in various newspapers of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between March 1835 and August 1863. The dataset draws from the three main dailies of the Brazilian capital circulating in the middle decades of the ninetee... |
May 28, 2021
Gomes, Flávio; Dantas, Gustavo; Neves, Raphael; Pimenta, Tânia, 2021, "Africans Burials and Residences in Rio de Janeiro, 1874-1899", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JIOJOP, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:xoMNhjOcnjf6qiSh4q21kQ== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains a structured selection of 4,636 entries, extracted from the nominal registries of deceased Africans interred in the Cemitério de São Francisco Xavier (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) between 1874 and 1889. The dataset draws from a set of burial registers maintained by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the principal charity hospital of t... |
May 28, 2021
Zimmerman, Kari, 2021, "Advertising Gender Slave Database: Escravos de ganho in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1880", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CFCWGD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:MmGDuBwGn8qqxV3NwD458Q== [fileUNF]
This dataset classifies information on approximately 1,700 escravos de ganho, or rental slaves, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 1850 and 1880. Culled from a sample of announcements published in the city’s main business newspaper, the Jornal do Commercio (est. 1827), the dataset systematically records the sex and occupations of enslaved peoples ad... |
May 28, 2021
Salles, Ricardo H.; Borges, Magno Fonseca, 2021, "Slaves in Post-Mortem Estate Inventories, Vassouras, Rio de Janeiro, 1821-1888", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AUQNQQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:drEFpxL7bsmUqeQWJtCcUg== [fileUNF]
This structured dataset includes nominal registries of enslaved laborers and slave families drawn from 923 post-mortem property inventories taken upon the death of estate owners in Vassouras county, Rio de Janeiro province, opened between 1821 and 1888. This dataset lists 30,533 enslaved individuals from various estates. Inventoried estates are lis... |
May 4, 2021
Niven, Steven J., 2021, "Enslaved People in the African American National Biography, 1508-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FIEYGJ, Harvard Dataverse, V3, UNF:6:+xCci5GUcKGj3fDuuyiDxw== [fileUNF]
The "Enslaved People in the African American National Biography, 1508-1865" dataset builds on the complete print and online collection of the African American National Biography (AANB), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. The full collection contains over 6,000 biographical entries of named historical individuals, inclu... |
Jan 23, 2021
Cole, Stacy Ashmore; Dillon, Cathy Tarpley, 2021, "They Had Names: Representations of the Enslaved in Liberty County, Georgia, Estate Inventories, 1762-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/03HR2N, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:6cpyMtC68OdCZwkoAQnF2w== [fileUNF]
"They Had Names" contains abstracts of 650 Liberty County post-mortem estate inventories and divisions. The names of 18,300+ enslaved people were extracted from Liberty County court documents recorded between 1762 and 1865. The dataset includes original and standardized versions of names of the enslaved and slave owners, allowing for sorting by nam... |
Dec 30, 2020
Burnett, Miranda R. W.; Violette, Martin H., 2020, "Take Them in Families: The Enslaved People of Casa Bianca Plantation, Florida", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/G35HSK, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:RPAgG+8/qn9Ht2EvcBnMxw== [fileUNF]
The “Take Them in Families” project began with the objective of identifying the enslaved families who former United States president James Monroe sold to Casa Bianca, a plantation located in Jefferson County, Florida. While uncovering the story of Casa Bianca Plantation, we detected that other groups of enslaved people had been purchased for the pl... |
