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Radburn, Nicholas, 2024, "Après la traversée: The Forced Migrations of Enslaved Africans within Saint-Domingue, 1765-1791", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KQNKKF, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:dbqmcr9ij/S340bzE7mc5w== [fileUNF]
The "Après la traversée" (ALT) dataset documents 730 enslaved people’s forced migrations from Africa to Saint-Domingue via the Transatlantic Slave Trade. It is comprised of two source bases: a set of plantation censuses that, uniquely, groups 556 Africans by the slave ship from which they were purchased; and advertisements published in Saint-Doming... |
Fudge, Michael; Murphy, Tessa; Ustanik, Ian; Bajorek, Katelyn; Biggs, Lydia; Jones, Kayla; Lucy, Michael; Paule, Amanda, 2024, "Slavery in Saint Lucia: Insights from the Saint Lucia Register of Plantation Slaves, 1815", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HQFZGJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Y6TqXYYHBZM1b8TI+MS8eA== [fileUNF]
This dataset is based on digital copies of British National Archives item T 71/379: Register of Plantation Slaves, St. Lucia, 1815. The original register is retained in the National Archives of the United Kingdom and photographs of each page are available through ancestry.com. The register contains 745 pages, handwritten in English or French accord... |
McManus, Stuart, 2024, "Slavery, Freedom, and Intermediate Statuses in Macau: Arquivo Diocesano de Macau, Freguesia de São Lourenço, Batismos 1741-1776", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BIQMFF, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:d6ORGbruBQZ+bNPqUounog== [fileUNF]
This dataset is based on a unique and hitherto unstudied source, the over 200-folios of manuscript baptismal records from the Parish of St. Lawrence (Freguesia de São Lourenço) in Macau that cover the period 1741-1976. The records themselves are preserved in situ in the Diocesan Archive of Macau in a legible contemporary manuscript written in a num... |
Morales-Armstrong, 2024, "Santa Isabel Enslaved Census of 1870", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AJ091N, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:NHOVceWD4u0iaqM0DurEfw== [fileUNF]
The Santa Isabel Enslaved Census (SIEC) dataset is drawn from a municipal register of enslaved people in Santa Isabel in 1870, located in the Archivo General de Puerto Rico. The data provides both a demographic snapshot of Santa Isabel’s enslaved population on the eve of abolition and begins to fill a gap in the public archival record of the enslav... |
Cussen, Celia; Canals, Mauricio; Martínez, Juan José, 2024, "Notarial Records of Sales of Enslaved Individuals in Santiago de Chile, 1773-1821", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OW10C9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:tnyetOca1cIxyAvnKc2ssw== [fileUNF]
Based on a complete review of the notarial records of Santiago de Chile, this dataset registers the transactions by which 3,800 individuals of African descent changed hands in Santiago de Chile between 1773 and 1821. It includes the names of the buyers, sellers, and enslaved persons, as well as the value of each transaction. Where possible, the dat... |
Cocanower, Evan; Gudmestad, Robert, 2024, "Self-Emancipation along the Lower Mississippi River in 1863", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HNCDFS, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:FbYFRIDlwP8OzFsRvqlD4g== [fileUNF]
In June and July of 1863, enslaved people in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi, fled to Union gunboats. One of the boat’s clerks recorded demographic information for 960 refugees, including first and last names, ages, birth places, and owners. It is unusual to find such information for enslaved people in the United... |
Hawthorne, Walter; Bollinger, Heather; Charris, Lorenzo; Griffin, Bailey, 2024, "Death among the Enslaved and Free in Fairfax County, Virginia, 1853-1869", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5G4VF6, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:iDSHNHIjmPotufQdAkqDMA== [fileUNF]
The information in this dataset is extracted from the Fairfax County (Virginia) Circuit Court Register of Deaths, 1853 to 1869. The records are part of a wider Fairfax Court Slavery Index project, which is housed at the Fairfax Circuit Court Historic Records Center in Fairfax, Virginia. The dataset includes information about, among other things, th... |
Kimball, Lori, 2024, "Oatlands and Bellefield Enslaved Community", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SUIAZ4, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:m6nt9doTBnlsZM2MtXvw0w== [fileUNF]
As part of the Telling All of Our Stories project, Oatlands created a dataset to record every reference to a named enslaved person. The goal was to provide a source for locating ancestors or certain individuals and learning more about the people who were enslaved at Carter plantations Oatlands and Bellefield in Virginia. The first phase consists of... |
Sherrill, Chuck; Schindling, Jim; Sutton, Jessica; Fletcher, Jessica, 2024, "Black Civil War Veterans and the Records of Incarceration: Slavery, Race, and the Tennessee State Penitentiary, 1850-1870", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FE4RLC, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This dataset documents the records of mainly Black people incarcerated in the Tennessee State Penitentiary in the period directly before, during, and after the Civil War, from 1850-1870. It includes a staggering amount of formerly enslaved Civil War soldiers and veterans who had enlisted in the segregated regiments of the United States Military, th... |
Ayers-Sánchez, Salomé A.; Bails, Dylan; Bell, Camilia; Matthes, Summer; Mejia, Victorianna; Pineda, Briana; Rivera, Zoe, 2024, "Enslaved, Free, and Disabled Black Experiences from the Peter Daybook, Georgetown, D.C., 1796-1799", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/K9KYBX, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:htbt9aas7Trulj9x/u3b4Q== [fileUNF]
The dataset documents the biographical information of enslaved and free people documented in prominent Maryland enslaver Thomas Peter’s daybook. The daybook includes a list detailing the names, ages, and values of sixty-one enslaved individuals, originally described as his wife, Martha Parke Custis’s, patrimony list. A thorough transaction history... |
