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Levy, Andrew, 2024, "Robert Carter III “Deed of Gift” Emancipation Document, 1791", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CDTXX5, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:dVUqRCdTM29WebYOB4YLJg== [fileUNF]
“I have for some time past been convinced that to retain them in Slavery is contrary to the true principles of Religion and Justice, that therefore it was my duty to manumit them.” On September 5, 1791, the Northumberland District Court of Virginia recorded a “Deed of Gift,” authored by Robert Carter III, and dated August 1 of that same year. In th... |
Neuroth, Lydia; Bennett, Jessica; Burgess, Jessica, 2023, "Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative - Bills of Sale and Deeds, 1703-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Y09OZP, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:EAd6SLQY++QBPPRcacAH9A== [fileUNF]
Copy and paste abstractVirginia Untold: The African American Narrative is a project that provides digital access to historical records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black and multiracial people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. This dataset, regarding Bills of Sale and Deeds, include documents that convey... |
Montalvo, Maria, 2023, "Redhibition Suits and Enslaved People in the Orleans Parish Court, 1813-1846", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/3QY84T, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:PaidgUGnVYsY2XTNE8ruDw== [fileUNF]
During the antebellum period, the same enslavers who flocked to New Orleans to participate in North America’s largest slave market also filtered in and out of the Crescent City’s courtrooms, where they contested sales, claimed warranties, and endeavored to exploit their investments in the people they enslaved. Court records from these disputes at t... |
How, Neil, 2023, "Manumissions of Enslaved Persons Recorded in Registers of Deeds in Montserrat National Trust Archives", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VDWJXP, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:T1nmvsggewtui8z6ierlsw== [fileUNF]
The Register of Deeds in the British West Indian colonies was the fundamental and definitive record of all legal documents pertaining to property–real estate, personal possessions, and chattels, which included enslaved people. Laboriously transcribed from the originals, they served (and do still serve) as a permanent history of plantation sales, po... |
Douma, Michael, 2023, "Prices of Enslaved Persons in New York and New Jersey", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4X2SA1, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This is a dataset of sales, probate inventories, and newspaper advertisements of prices of enslaved persons in New York and New Jersey from 1672 to 1856, compiled from primary and secondary sources. It is the largest compilation of such data of its kind for Northern states and can be useful in measuring prices of the enslaved over time, by region,... |
Madarang, Allen; Hackett, Charles, 2023, "Inventory of the Estate of Isaac Franklin, 1847", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UWG5D9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:97P0BSBSfFDBEc1zhz81VQ== [fileUNF]
This dataset was extracted from the “Inventory of the Estate of Isaac Franklin,” a document cataloging the enslaved individuals and other possessions of value held at the Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin, Tennessee. The purpose of the document was to codify a legal record of Franklin’s property that was to be inherited by his wife, Adelicia Franklin.... |
Smith, Deborah A.; Reynolds, Garrett, 2023, "Seth Woodroof Account Book, Jones Memorial Library: Sales of Enslaved Persons in Lynchburg, VA, 1834-1840", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Q3Z5PB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:lUUOQlJugIJIXjCTYh38SA== [fileUNF]
The Seth Woodroof Account Book, Manuscript 1047, is held at the George M. Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia, and also available digitally. The book is among the collection’s original local history holdings. The account book is believed to have been donated to the library by the Manson family after the library opened in 1908. Data from M... |
Butchart, Ronald E.; Pavich, Melanie; Engel, Mary Ella; Davis, Christina; Rolleri, Amy F., 2022, "The Freedmen’s Teacher Project: Teachers among the Freed People in the U.S. South, 1861-1877", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0HBDZD, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The Freedmen’s Teacher Project (FTP) was initiated more than four decades ago. Its focus was on the people who responded to the overwhelming demand of formerly enslaved southern African Americans for access to literacy. Its temporal scope is from the first weeks of the American Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. The intent was to amass as much... |
Roth, Cassia, 2023, "Rio de Janeiro Wet Nurses Dataset: Enslaved and Free Women in Rio de Janeiro, 1850", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SYLVQQ, Harvard Dataverse, V3
The “Rio de Janeiro Wet-Nursing Database” (RJWND) comprises all advertisements for wet nurses for the year of 1850 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, extracted from the city’s main commercial newspaper, Jornal do Commercio. “Mercenary” wet nursing, what contemporaries called the practice of paying for other women to breastfeed their children, was a thrivin... |
Karasch, Mary C., 2023, "Enslaved Names and Identities in the Meia-Sizas of Central Brazil, 1810-1822", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ECV6AR, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ifoB6uECvxcU90PaxFFW6A== [fileUNF]
The meia-siza (sisa) was the 5% tax paid when an enslaved person was bought and sold in the nineteenth century. Many documents on the enslaved of Brazil were burned in 1888 at the time of the abolition of slavery. When I first went to Rio de Janeiro in 1968, I was told repeatedly that I could not write a history of enslaved Africans in the city of... |
