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BFRCC_BlackMarriages_Documentation_202501.pdf Apr 30, 2025 - Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia Adobe PDF - 57.1 KB - MD5: b21ae99075b909704666cf42e26ab9db Black marriages in the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia documentation
BFRCC-GeneralRegister_Data_202501.tab Apr 30, 2025 - Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia Tabular Data - 9.2 MB - 27 Variables, 49985 Observations - UNF:6:cJfpTQnRlwNYeIz+Qs/GJg== General Register of records of Christ Church, Philadelphia dataset
BFRCC-GeneralRegister_Documentation_202501.pdf Apr 30, 2025 - Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia Adobe PDF - 62.1 KB - MD5: a1035a6fb40f3016f5dd82c994c0feaa General Register of records of Christ Church, Philadelphia documentation
California Slavery Era Insurance Registry Apr 30, 2025 California Department of Insurance, 2025, "California Slavery Era Insurance Registry", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BP6JHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:DfI99Mc0Kv9a4RE1EJjLGw== [fileUNF] California’s Slavery Era Insurance Registry is a dataset of 677 records of life insurance policies on enslaved people in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, whose lives enslavers insured through companies (or successor firms), still doing business in California in 2000. The same year, California...
CSEIR_Data_30340805.tab Apr 30, 2025 - California Slavery Era Insurance Registry Tabular Data - 231.7 KB - 7 Variables, 687 Observations - UNF:6:DfI99Mc0Kv9a4RE1EJjLGw== California Slavery Era Insurance Registry data
CSEIR_Documentation_20240805.pdf Apr 30, 2025 - California Slavery Era Insurance Registry Adobe PDF - 31.1 KB - MD5: f423641de394530582ee58b6cc624ba9 California Slavery Era Insurance Registry documentation
Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623 Dec 19, 2024 Marquez, John C., 2024, "Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VVBUCA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8jy0DBDoxeDupgXsZ2Cq4g== [fileUNF] The Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623 dataset is a contribution to the study of urban slavery and the African diaspora in early modern Portugal. It presents biographical information, such as name, birthplace, legal status, and parish residence, of 571 enslaved and freed Africans (286 men, 285 women) in Lisbon who pursued marriage—288 c...
BMLP_Data_20241217.tab Dec 19, 2024 - Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623 Tabular Data - 255.9 KB - 126 Variables, 287 Observations - UNF:6:8jy0DBDoxeDupgXsZ2Cq4g== "Black Marriages in Lisbon Portugal" data
BMLP_Documentation_20241219.pdf Dec 19, 2024 - Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623 Adobe PDF - 103.5 KB - MD5: 6169e5cf58e980045d44fd8dea0a1600 "Black Marriages in Lisbon Portugal" documentation
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...

BFRCC_BlackMarriages_Documentation_202501.pdf

Apr 30, 2025 - Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia

Adobe PDF - 57.1 KB -

Black marriages in the records of Christ Church, Philadelphia documentation

BFRCC-GeneralRegister_Data_202501.tab

Apr 30, 2025 - Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia

Tabular Data - 9.2 MB - 27 Variables, 49985 Observations -

General Register of records of Christ Church, Philadelphia dataset

BFRCC-GeneralRegister_Documentation_202501.pdf

Apr 30, 2025 - Black Families in the Records of Christ Church, Philadelphia

Adobe PDF - 62.1 KB -

General Register of records of Christ Church, Philadelphia documentation

California Slavery Era Insurance Registry

Apr 30, 2025

California Department of Insurance, 2025, "California Slavery Era Insurance Registry", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BP6JHQ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:DfI99Mc0Kv9a4RE1EJjLGw== [fileUNF]

California’s Slavery Era Insurance Registry is a dataset of 677 records of life insurance policies on enslaved people in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, whose lives enslavers insured through companies (or successor firms), still doing business in California in 2000. The same year, California...

CSEIR_Data_30340805.tab

Apr 30, 2025 - California Slavery Era Insurance Registry

Tabular Data - 231.7 KB - 7 Variables, 687 Observations -

California Slavery Era Insurance Registry data

CSEIR_Documentation_20240805.pdf

Apr 30, 2025 - California Slavery Era Insurance Registry

Adobe PDF - 31.1 KB -

California Slavery Era Insurance Registry documentation

Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623

Dec 19, 2024

Marquez, John C., 2024, "Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VVBUCA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:8jy0DBDoxeDupgXsZ2Cq4g== [fileUNF]

The Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623 dataset is a contribution to the study of urban slavery and the African diaspora in early modern Portugal. It presents biographical information, such as name, birthplace, legal status, and parish residence, of 571 enslaved and freed Africans (286 men, 285 women) in Lisbon who pursued marriage—288 c...

BMLP_Data_20241217.tab

Dec 19, 2024 - Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623

Tabular Data - 255.9 KB - 126 Variables, 287 Observations -

"Black Marriages in Lisbon Portugal" data

BMLP_Documentation_20241219.pdf

Dec 19, 2024 - Black Marriages in Lisbon, Portugal, 1611-1623

Adobe PDF - 103.5 KB -

"Black Marriages in Lisbon Portugal" documentation

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...

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