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Dec 13, 2024
Smith, Sherry, 2024, "The Vote for Freedom to Liberia from Prospect Hill Plantation, 1847", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BCVHAA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:CqQ/j7GjUDfLIcQX1ByeTw== [fileUNF]
The dataset was extracted from the list of passengers on the barque Nehemiah Rich, departing from New Orleans, Louisiana on January 7, 1848, published in the African Repository and Colonial Journal. The dataset includes headings from the Nehemiah Rich passenger list—number, names, ages, where from, and remarks, as well as additional fields document... |
Horecny, Zoie; Sherrer, Mary; Schulz, Constance B., 2024, "People Enslaved at Fairfield and Auckland Plantations (1773-ca. 1792)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LGDMXV, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:suHID8IXPqMSSWRAKZLSRg== [fileUNF]
This dataset is documents the practice of multi-generational enslavement across multiple properties by elite Lowcountry enslavers in South Carolina. The three inventories used for this dataset are a part of the Fairfield Plantation Book (1773-1797), which was used by Jacob Motte (1729-1780) to manage his plantation Fairfield until his death. Motte... |
Sep 5, 2024
Peterson, Lindsey R.; Ural, Susannah J., 2024, "Black Experiences Documented in Civil War & Reconstruction-era Mississippi Governors’ Papers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KGIOXT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:+DBtiFK0r7l0xcVmwhtwtA== [fileUNF]
This dataset focuses on four subject tags that relate directly to African American experiences that can be found in Mississippi's Civil War and Reconstruction-era governors' papers. By selecting subject tags relating to Black experiences, users can explore cooccurrences (or closely related subject tags) to that term and narrow the data by region, d... |
Sep 5, 2024
Newman, Paige, 2024, "Unknown No Longer: Enslaved Individuals Documented in the Manuscript Collections of the Virginia Museum of History and Culture", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGCILG, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GXstVcHuRTgEaNJ26tK5KQ== [fileUNF]
Unknown No Longer (UNL) was the first Virginia online searchable database to make available biographical details of enslaved Virginians from the manuscript collections of the Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Launched in 2011, the project enabled researchers to discover information on ancestors not found in other sources. Beginning in 2019, UNL... |
Sep 5, 2024
Bumbarger, Bruce; Caust-Ellenbogen, Celia; Cook, David; Crauderueff, Mary; Grinnage-Cassidy, Whitney; Martinez, Zahara; Pollard, James; Satten-Lopez, David; Trutt, James; Thaisrivongs, Emily, 2024, "Quaker Manumissions in the American Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, 1759-1805", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XCC3VN, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:7QNTFbE33gaXFUw+oz2oyQ== [fileUNF]
This document collection, sourced from the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections, contains manumissions from Quaker meetings (congregations) in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States during the 18th and early 19th centuries. When the Religious Society of Friends forb... |
Sep 5, 2024
Gardner, Leigh, 2024, "African American Migration to Liberia, 1820-1906", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJFNGY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:uI/DjU+oyb2X3ueqxNCNSA== [fileUNF]
From 1820 to 1904, more than 16,000 African Americans traveled from the United States to what became the Republic of Liberia. Although these migrants have been the subject of a rich historical literature, much of this work has focused on subsets of people who migrated at a particular time or from a particular place. This dataset is the most compreh... |
Sep 5, 2024
Sacco, Nick, 2024, "William Still’s Underground Railroad Data, 1853-1861", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IRPWJB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:hep8ITGPpH0NIpaOy1IE/A== [fileUNF]
From 1853 to 1861, nearly 1,000 enslaved freedom seekers came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to seek refuge with the Black abolitionist William Still in his capacity as a leading member of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society. Although the Underground Railroad is popularly remembered as a secret communications network between enslaved people and t... |
Sep 5, 2024
Karasch, Mary, 2024, "Black Brothers and Sisters in the Lay Brotherhoods of the Rosary in Central Brazil, 1786-1863", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FXXE4E, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:+hh3s3zlnEcJ7hfDRNBX8g== [fileUNF]
The source of this data is three brotherhoods’ manuscripts formerly held by the Biblioteca da Fundação Educacional da Cidade de Goiás (BFEG). In the 1720s, enslaved Africans were imported into Central Brazil to mine gold in Vila Boa de Goiás, the future capital of the captaincy of Goiás. About a decade later gold was discovered to the north in Nati... |
Maryland State Archives, 2024, "Legacy of Slavery in Maryland: “Slave Statistics”", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B5HXJI, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Wyh2csfVyGwuB7ubRYq5CQ== [fileUNF]
“Slave Statistics” consists of 7,289 records derived from lists of enslaved individuals in Anne Arundel and Montgomery counties as of November 1, 1864, the date when the Constitution of 1864, which abolished slavery in the state of Maryland, took effect. Maryland remained in the Union during the Civil War, despite the divided loyalties of her peopl... |
Maryland State Archives, 2024, "Legacy of Slavery in Maryland: “Chattels”", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/P7JVOQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:MVOoEnubYRvt9z81f1it0w== [fileUNF]
Chattels records housed at the Maryland State Archives contain recorded sales of property for other than real estate from 1790 to 1862 for twenty-one of the state’s counties; the “Chattels” dataset utilizes information from four counties in central Maryland: Anne Arundel, Dorchester, Kent, and Prince George’s. The “Chattels” dataset is currently co... |
