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Manumissions on Maryland’s Western Shore, 1775-1785 Dec 13, 2024 Van Morgan, Sydney; Pasternak, Bailey; Wan, Lydia; Wang, Qingxi; Williams, Hardy, 2024, "Manumissions on Maryland’s Western Shore, 1775-1785", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8FTGTM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:LgNFJ/hVDLbll6GUoFmfxg== [fileUNF] The “Manumissions on Maryland’s Western Shore, 1775-1785” dataset identifies 618 people manumitted as the result of 83 private land deeds recorded between the years 1775 and 1785 in five Maryland counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Montgomery and Prince George's. An ongoing project, this dataset is the first effort to compile and make publi...
Families Enslaved to the Peters in Montgomery County, Maryland: 1790 & 1807 Dec 13, 2024 Bollinger, Heather; Kerr, Molly, 2024, "Families Enslaved to the Peters in Montgomery County, Maryland: 1790 & 1807", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4RAKTV, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:lToNvV37x0k1mYKUhQv66w== [fileUNF] Regarded by early Georgetown historians and residents as one of the wealthiest men in Maryland during the colonial and early American periods, Robert Peter enslaved hundreds of people in Montgomery County, Maryland, during his lifetime and left a legacy of enslavement continued by his children. This dataset contains information from two lists of en...
Flights from Slavery in Revolutionary Maryland, 1745-1800 Dec 13, 2024 Vermette, Kyle R., 2024, "Flights from Slavery in Revolutionary Maryland, 1745-1800", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FABNPT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:x2AwNzwVEKf/InQlmIAkyA== [fileUNF] "Flights from Slavery in Revolutionary Maryland" contains information about the escape attempts of 1242 unique enslaved persons who resided in Maryland between 1745 and 1800; it also incorporates information regarding the enslavers who attempted to remand these escapees to slavery by placing fugitive slave advertisements in newspapers. Principally...
Enslaved & Free African Americans in Antebellum Frederick, Maryland Dec 13, 2024 McCoy, Gabrielle, 2024, "Enslaved & Free African Americans in Antebellum Frederick, Maryland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TVLIMU, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:s8AgCz5RWBzCHvNdLNN+TA== [fileUNF] This dataset contains information about 2,280 people who lived in Frederick, Maryland (including Frederick City) between 1785 to 1841. The information about enslaved, freed, or liminal status persons is drawn from the family records, deeds of manumission, bills of sale, and runaway advertisements of three prominent slave owning families: the McPher...
The Enslaved People of Amity Hall, Saint Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, 1820 Dec 13, 2024 Gouldbourne, Jaida; Hawthorne, Walter, 2024, "The Enslaved People of Amity Hall, Saint Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, 1820", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S2KOJR, Harvard Dataverse, V1 We created this dataset from an inventory of the enslaved people on the Amity Hall Plantation in Saint Thomas-in-the-East Parish, Surrey County, Jamaica. The inventory was recorded as part of an 1820 agreement (with an 1828 watermark) to lease the enslaved people at Amity Hall. To make it clear who comprised the enslaved population on the plantatio...
Anglican Baptisms of People of African Descent in Jamaica, 1669-1800 Dec 13, 2024 Strickland, Matthew Black; Roberts, Addy; Summers, Ashley; Cintron, Alex; Rudnick, Grace; Siracusa, Katherine, 2024, "Anglican Baptisms of People of African Descent in Jamaica, 1669-1800", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YNB3AA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:J9PvxVI2qzZfvGtK8HNjxA== [fileUNF] "Anglican Baptisms of People of African Descent in Jamaica, 1669-1800" is a dataset comprising records of 21,776 individuals baptized in the Church of England in colonial Jamaica between 1669 and 1800. This dataset offers a detailed look into the intersection of race, religion, and society during the peak of the British Atlantic slave trade. It pro...
The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database, 1780-1865 Dec 13, 2024 Sirko, Kelley, 2024, "The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database, 1780-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6K3E3X, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ba6KhAYemvaIvMXCZ3T0YQ== [fileUNF] The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database (NEFPCD) contains information regarding the movements of more than 14,700 Black people and their enslavers in Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee before Emancipation. Information for this database was compiled using the information found in a total of seventeen Davidson County record boo...
Black People, Resistance, and the Legal Archive of Slavery in Britain, 1677-1824 Dec 13, 2024 Littlefield, Marci Bounds, 2024, "Black People, Resistance, and the Legal Archive of Slavery in Britain, 1677-1824", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EJMHGQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1 The Black People, Resistance, and the Legal Archive of Slavery in Britain (LASB) dataset contains extracted information about the lives of enslaved people identified in the British judicial record involving enslaved persons from1677 to1824. The data was extracted from the British and Scottish archives and from the Judicial Cases Concerning American...
Enslaved Persons of Union Hill & Neighboring Plantations in Nelson County, Virginia (1769-1865) Dec 13, 2024 Terlesky, Katherine, 2024, "Enslaved Persons of Union Hill & Neighboring Plantations in Nelson County, Virginia (1769-1865)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IUWSI2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:mgTkYKwKSOZYzA4MhGhOcg== [fileUNF] This study used traditional archival research with modern computational methods to construct and organize a comprehensive dataset of over 600 enslaved individuals from the Cabell family's Union Hill and neighboring plantations along the James River in present-day Nelson County, Virginia, from 1769 to the end of the Civil War. Utilizing enslaved lab...
Enlistments in Connecticut’s Colored Regiments During the Civil War Dec 13, 2024 Mills, Erica, 2024, "Enlistments in Connecticut’s Colored Regiments During the Civil War", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DXI6WD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:gVom0Q+HsHQP1uEgw/fNnw== [fileUNF] This dataset is a collection of enlistments into the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Volunteer Regiment and the 31st United States Colored Troops as recorded in the Connecticut state’s adjutant general’s office’s publication, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, in 1889. E...

Manumissions on Maryland’s Western Shore, 1775-1785

Dec 13, 2024

Van Morgan, Sydney; Pasternak, Bailey; Wan, Lydia; Wang, Qingxi; Williams, Hardy, 2024, "Manumissions on Maryland’s Western Shore, 1775-1785", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8FTGTM, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:LgNFJ/hVDLbll6GUoFmfxg== [fileUNF]

The “Manumissions on Maryland’s Western Shore, 1775-1785” dataset identifies 618 people manumitted as the result of 83 private land deeds recorded between the years 1775 and 1785 in five Maryland counties: Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Harford, Montgomery and Prince George's. An ongoing project, this dataset is the first effort to compile and make publi...

Families Enslaved to the Peters in Montgomery County, Maryland: 1790 & 1807

Dec 13, 2024

Bollinger, Heather; Kerr, Molly, 2024, "Families Enslaved to the Peters in Montgomery County, Maryland: 1790 & 1807", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4RAKTV, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:lToNvV37x0k1mYKUhQv66w== [fileUNF]

Regarded by early Georgetown historians and residents as one of the wealthiest men in Maryland during the colonial and early American periods, Robert Peter enslaved hundreds of people in Montgomery County, Maryland, during his lifetime and left a legacy of enslavement continued by his children. This dataset contains information from two lists of en...

Flights from Slavery in Revolutionary Maryland, 1745-1800

Dec 13, 2024

Vermette, Kyle R., 2024, "Flights from Slavery in Revolutionary Maryland, 1745-1800", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FABNPT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:x2AwNzwVEKf/InQlmIAkyA== [fileUNF]

"Flights from Slavery in Revolutionary Maryland" contains information about the escape attempts of 1242 unique enslaved persons who resided in Maryland between 1745 and 1800; it also incorporates information regarding the enslavers who attempted to remand these escapees to slavery by placing fugitive slave advertisements in newspapers. Principally...

Enslaved & Free African Americans in Antebellum Frederick, Maryland

Dec 13, 2024

McCoy, Gabrielle, 2024, "Enslaved & Free African Americans in Antebellum Frederick, Maryland", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TVLIMU, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:s8AgCz5RWBzCHvNdLNN+TA== [fileUNF]

This dataset contains information about 2,280 people who lived in Frederick, Maryland (including Frederick City) between 1785 to 1841. The information about enslaved, freed, or liminal status persons is drawn from the family records, deeds of manumission, bills of sale, and runaway advertisements of three prominent slave owning families: the McPher...

The Enslaved People of Amity Hall, Saint Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, 1820

Dec 13, 2024

Gouldbourne, Jaida; Hawthorne, Walter, 2024, "The Enslaved People of Amity Hall, Saint Thomas-in-the-East, Jamaica, 1820", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S2KOJR, Harvard Dataverse, V1

We created this dataset from an inventory of the enslaved people on the Amity Hall Plantation in Saint Thomas-in-the-East Parish, Surrey County, Jamaica. The inventory was recorded as part of an 1820 agreement (with an 1828 watermark) to lease the enslaved people at Amity Hall. To make it clear who comprised the enslaved population on the plantatio...

Anglican Baptisms of People of African Descent in Jamaica, 1669-1800

Dec 13, 2024

Strickland, Matthew Black; Roberts, Addy; Summers, Ashley; Cintron, Alex; Rudnick, Grace; Siracusa, Katherine, 2024, "Anglican Baptisms of People of African Descent in Jamaica, 1669-1800", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YNB3AA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:J9PvxVI2qzZfvGtK8HNjxA== [fileUNF]

"Anglican Baptisms of People of African Descent in Jamaica, 1669-1800" is a dataset comprising records of 21,776 individuals baptized in the Church of England in colonial Jamaica between 1669 and 1800. This dataset offers a detailed look into the intersection of race, religion, and society during the peak of the British Atlantic slave trade. It pro...

The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database, 1780-1865

Dec 13, 2024

Sirko, Kelley, 2024, "The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database, 1780-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6K3E3X, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ba6KhAYemvaIvMXCZ3T0YQ== [fileUNF]

The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database (NEFPCD) contains information regarding the movements of more than 14,700 Black people and their enslavers in Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee before Emancipation. Information for this database was compiled using the information found in a total of seventeen Davidson County record boo...

Black People, Resistance, and the Legal Archive of Slavery in Britain, 1677-1824

Dec 13, 2024

Littlefield, Marci Bounds, 2024, "Black People, Resistance, and the Legal Archive of Slavery in Britain, 1677-1824", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EJMHGQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1

The Black People, Resistance, and the Legal Archive of Slavery in Britain (LASB) dataset contains extracted information about the lives of enslaved people identified in the British judicial record involving enslaved persons from1677 to1824. The data was extracted from the British and Scottish archives and from the Judicial Cases Concerning American...

Enslaved Persons of Union Hill & Neighboring Plantations in Nelson County, Virginia (1769-1865)

Dec 13, 2024

Terlesky, Katherine, 2024, "Enslaved Persons of Union Hill & Neighboring Plantations in Nelson County, Virginia (1769-1865)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IUWSI2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:mgTkYKwKSOZYzA4MhGhOcg== [fileUNF]

This study used traditional archival research with modern computational methods to construct and organize a comprehensive dataset of over 600 enslaved individuals from the Cabell family's Union Hill and neighboring plantations along the James River in present-day Nelson County, Virginia, from 1769 to the end of the Civil War. Utilizing enslaved lab...

Enlistments in Connecticut’s Colored Regiments During the Civil War

Dec 13, 2024

Mills, Erica, 2024, "Enlistments in Connecticut’s Colored Regiments During the Civil War", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DXI6WD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:gVom0Q+HsHQP1uEgw/fNnw== [fileUNF]

This dataset is a collection of enlistments into the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Volunteer Regiment and the 31st United States Colored Troops as recorded in the Connecticut state’s adjutant general’s office’s publication, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion, in 1889. E...

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