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Database of Coroners’ Inquisitions Taken Over the Bodies of Enslaved, Formerly Enslaved, and Free Black Peoples in the U.S. South, 1840s-1890s Dec 30, 2020 Berry, Stephen, 2020, "Database of Coroners’ Inquisitions Taken Over the Bodies of Enslaved, Formerly Enslaved, and Free Black Peoples in the U.S. South, 1840s-1890s", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0RI3IY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:kCUtBSrX29i/VHRlno+eDQ== [fileUNF] This dataset is a subset of relevant records drawn from the larger CSI:Dixie (CSI:D) database (https://csidixie.org/), an active digital project seeking to record and analyze causes of death as revealed in coroners’ inquisitions taken in the nineteenth-century American South. The “Database of Coroners’ Inquisitions Taken Over the Bodies of Enslaved...
Contested Freedom: Free Persons of Color in Savannah, GA, 1823-1842 Dec 30, 2020 Taylor, Marquis, 2020, "Contested Freedom: Free Persons of Color in Savannah, GA, 1823-1842", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DRJEF1, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:A7NObUdpvqQC8n4smmw7xg== [fileUNF] The “Contested Freedom” dataset is compiled entirely of information for free persons of color who resided in the city of Savannah, Georgia, registered between 1823 and 1842. The dataset contains 1,321 named individuals residing in Chatham County. Savannah’s free Black population was made up of previously enslaved people who were manumitted by their...
Free Blacks Database: New Orleans, 1840-1860 Dec 1, 2020 Mitchell, Brian K., 2020, "Free Blacks Database: New Orleans, 1840-1860", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9ZD83Y, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:fcGwWbENW7Y0K/ogqotkJw== [fileUNF] The "Free Blacks" dataset was created from The Mayor's Register of Free Blacks in the City of New Orleans from 1840 to 1864. The dataset has a population of 2,818 individuals and 50 variables. Registered free blacks are listed by name, sex, age, year of birth, ethnicity, color, country of origin, city of origin, state of origin, date of arrival, pr...
Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820 Nov 30, 2020 Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, 2020, "Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WNOYWC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:egI0Nv+TrGzvWaen5Eowqw== [fileUNF] 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, t...
Maranhão Inventories Slave Database Nov 29, 2020 Hawthorne, Walter, 2020, "Maranhão Inventories Slave Database", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6JIZCE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:1q1nHWP9gTjHoG4UnG6OpA== [fileUNF] The Maranhão Inventories Slave Database (MISD) contains extracted information about the lives of 8,188 enslaved Africans and their descendants in Maranhão, Brazil from the mid-eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. The dataset contains 21 variables. MISD data were produced between 1767 and 1831 and have been extracted from invento...

Database of Coroners’ Inquisitions Taken Over the Bodies of Enslaved, Formerly Enslaved, and Free Black Peoples in the U.S. South, 1840s-1890s

Dec 30, 2020

Berry, Stephen, 2020, "Database of Coroners’ Inquisitions Taken Over the Bodies of Enslaved, Formerly Enslaved, and Free Black Peoples in the U.S. South, 1840s-1890s", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0RI3IY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:kCUtBSrX29i/VHRlno+eDQ== [fileUNF]

This dataset is a subset of relevant records drawn from the larger CSI:Dixie (CSI:D) database (https://csidixie.org/), an active digital project seeking to record and analyze causes of death as revealed in coroners’ inquisitions taken in the nineteenth-century American South. The “Database of Coroners’ Inquisitions Taken Over the Bodies of Enslaved...

Contested Freedom: Free Persons of Color in Savannah, GA, 1823-1842

Dec 30, 2020

Taylor, Marquis, 2020, "Contested Freedom: Free Persons of Color in Savannah, GA, 1823-1842", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DRJEF1, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:A7NObUdpvqQC8n4smmw7xg== [fileUNF]

The “Contested Freedom” dataset is compiled entirely of information for free persons of color who resided in the city of Savannah, Georgia, registered between 1823 and 1842. The dataset contains 1,321 named individuals residing in Chatham County. Savannah’s free Black population was made up of previously enslaved people who were manumitted by their...

Free Blacks Database: New Orleans, 1840-1860

Dec 1, 2020

Mitchell, Brian K., 2020, "Free Blacks Database: New Orleans, 1840-1860", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9ZD83Y, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:fcGwWbENW7Y0K/ogqotkJw== [fileUNF]

The "Free Blacks" dataset was created from The Mayor's Register of Free Blacks in the City of New Orleans from 1840 to 1864. The dataset has a population of 2,818 individuals and 50 variables. Registered free blacks are listed by name, sex, age, year of birth, ethnicity, color, country of origin, city of origin, state of origin, date of arrival, pr...

Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820

Nov 30, 2020

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, 2020, "Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WNOYWC, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:egI0Nv+TrGzvWaen5Eowqw== [fileUNF]

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, t...

Maranhão Inventories Slave Database

Nov 29, 2020

Hawthorne, Walter, 2020, "Maranhão Inventories Slave Database", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6JIZCE, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:1q1nHWP9gTjHoG4UnG6OpA== [fileUNF]

The Maranhão Inventories Slave Database (MISD) contains extracted information about the lives of 8,188 enslaved Africans and their descendants in Maranhão, Brazil from the mid-eighteenth century through the early nineteenth century. The dataset contains 21 variables. MISD data were produced between 1767 and 1831 and have been extracted from invento...

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