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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
The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872 Apr 30, 2025 Andino, Jr., Rigoberto, 2025, "The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QHZQLT, Harvard Dataverse, V1 The 1872 Slave Registry dataset for Mayagüez offers a valuable resource for conducting research and analysis related to the history of slavery in Puerto Rico. This dataset, which is a subset of a larger registry that covers the entire island, provides detailed information on approximately 2,580 enslaved individuals in Mayagüez, the third largest sl...
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
Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 Apr 30, 2025 Barnes, Christopher A., 2025, "Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MLZHJZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:j7hkLzoFtS3lAXjs+VwfGg== [fileUNF] This dataset contains records of enslaved African Americans manumitted between 1797 and 1825 by residents of Kings County, New York, better known today as the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. Prior to being incorporated into New York City in 1898, the independent towns and villages in Kings County maintained their own records, including some rela...
BOTRC-M_Data-Event_20230318.tab Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 Tabular Data - 205.5 KB - 20 Variables, 764 Observations - UNF:6:5PRxhaeflDF++N3Xtz8qVA== primary data file (by event) for Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825
BOTRC-M_Data-Place_20230318.tab Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 Tabular Data - 890 B - 6 Variables, 9 Observations - UNF:6:6HFgZDxz4MXz0eK2qgJQig== Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 place data
BOTRC-M_Data-Source_20230318.tab Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 Tabular Data - 2.4 KB - 7 Variables, 5 Observations - UNF:6:XqYtEwI2LtOgGn3TTlnXeQ== Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 source data
BOTRC-M_Documentation_20250318.pdf Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 Adobe PDF - 76.4 KB - MD5: db5911a4ec2e3d4b406357fd642ca096 Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 event documentation
African Voices from the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Apr 30, 2025 Fogleman, Aaron; Mundim, Larissa; Lundberg, Alexander, 2025, "African Voices from the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VYH1W2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Kzerwet1uPuLgHxcjo2NTw== [fileUNF] This dataset and the accompanying appendices present 157 additional published accounts from Brazil, namely those by Africans who participated in the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia. Following the revolt, the police conducted more than two hundred hearings of enslaved and free Creoles and Africans in the city. In the late twentieth century, the...

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 -

"Book of Negroes" data documentation

The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872

Apr 30, 2025

Andino, Jr., Rigoberto, 2025, "The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QHZQLT, Harvard Dataverse, V1

The 1872 Slave Registry dataset for Mayagüez offers a valuable resource for conducting research and analysis related to the history of slavery in Puerto Rico. This dataset, which is a subset of a larger registry that covers the entire island, provides detailed information on approximately 2,580 enslaved individuals in Mayagüez, the third largest sl...

SRMPR_Data_20250127.csv

Apr 30, 2025 - The Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872

Comma Separated Values - 559.3 KB -

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 -

Slave Registry of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, 1872 documentation

Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825

Apr 30, 2025

Barnes, Christopher A., 2025, "Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MLZHJZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:j7hkLzoFtS3lAXjs+VwfGg== [fileUNF]

This dataset contains records of enslaved African Americans manumitted between 1797 and 1825 by residents of Kings County, New York, better known today as the New York City Borough of Brooklyn. Prior to being incorporated into New York City in 1898, the independent towns and villages in Kings County maintained their own records, including some rela...

BOTRC-M_Data-Event_20230318.tab

Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825

Tabular Data - 205.5 KB - 20 Variables, 764 Observations -

primary data file (by event) for Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825

BOTRC-M_Data-Place_20230318.tab

Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825

Tabular Data - 890 B - 6 Variables, 9 Observations -

Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 place data

BOTRC-M_Data-Source_20230318.tab

Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825

Tabular Data - 2.4 KB - 7 Variables, 5 Observations -

Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 source data

BOTRC-M_Documentation_20250318.pdf

Apr 30, 2025 - Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825

Adobe PDF - 76.4 KB -

Manumissions in the Brooklyn Old Town Records Collection, 1797-1825 event documentation

African Voices from the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

Apr 30, 2025

Fogleman, Aaron; Mundim, Larissa; Lundberg, Alexander, 2025, "African Voices from the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VYH1W2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Kzerwet1uPuLgHxcjo2NTw== [fileUNF]

This dataset and the accompanying appendices present 157 additional published accounts from Brazil, namely those by Africans who participated in the 1835 Malê Revolt in Salvador, Bahia. Following the revolt, the police conducted more than two hundred hearings of enslaved and free Creoles and Africans in the city. In the late twentieth century, the...

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