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O'Toole, Marjory, 2023, "People of Color in Little Compton, Rhode Island, 1670-1920", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XCHW7C, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This dataset of approximately 1,000 record entries and 380 individuals is based on primary source documents referring to African and Indigenous people enslaved in and around Little Compton, Rhode Island (also known as Sakonnet) from the late 1600s to 1816. It also includes entries for indentured people (especially forcibly indentured people) of all... |
Castillo, Ashley J.; Diop, Ousmane; Martinez, Viviana G.; McClister, Caitlin A.; Murry, Grace A.; Sanders, Zora M.; Woods, Taylor, 2023, "Hired Out: Enslaved Persons from the Estate of Thomas Cramphin (Maryland and District of Columbia, 1830s)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KMW1B3, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:naBenUynMnpMV4RBK3uWyw== [fileUNF]
This dataset is a nominal list of 32 enslaved individuals belonging to the estate of the deceased Thomas Cramphin (ca. 1740-1830) and who were hired out to various individuals and households, including known slaveholders, residing in Maryland and the District of Columbia. The research cohort created an enhanced dataset beyond a transcription, with... |
Goodwin, Natalie; Coke, Fletch; Fletcher, Jessica; Sutton, Angela, 2023, "Enslaved and Free Laborers of the US Army in Civil War Nashville: Supplemental Materials and Claims-Making, 1862-1879", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JFSURG, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:VTx+iemMSwyLfLvM3nZFRQ== [fileUNF]
The Battle of Nashville was the pivotal conflict of the Civil War. The Union troops required an extraordinary amount of labor to build a system of fortifications, trenches, redoubts and other wartime infrastructure to successfully capture and defend the city. With a mix of enslaved and free laborers, some of whom were impressed and others who volun... |
Mar 31, 2023
Bollinger, Heather; Brown, Georgia J.; Krempasky, Katrina; McCoy, Maddy, 2023, "Colonial Probate Records in the Fairfax Court Slavery Index, 1742-1767", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UVIFL2, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:QWMiZFQSr1w8BrxeNvjSyw== [fileUNF]
Fairfax Circuit Court, Virginia historic court records contain the names of thousands of enslaved and free people of color, and indentured white servants, who, due to their legal status as personal property during the 18th and 19th centuries, cannot be easily identified within said records. Probate records, in particular, were indexed by the name o... |
Mar 31, 2023
Bollinger, Heather; Crouch, Justin, 2023, "Revolutionary Probate Records in the Fairfax Court Slavery Index, 1767-1791", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MD2YRB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:UJO0IBVdx4A2XVcBaWIh+A== [fileUNF]
Fairfax Circuit Court, Virginia historic court records contain the names of thousands of enslaved and free people of color, and indentured white servants, who, due to their legal status as personal property during the 18th and 19th centuries, cannot be easily identified within said records. Probate records, in particular, were indexed by the name o... |
Ribianszky, Nik, 2023, "Generations of Freedom: The Natchez Database of Free People of Color, 1779-1865", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WRWZQT, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GGZWMmzjLy7oaUA06meSZw== [fileUNF]
The Natchez Database of Free People of Color (NDFPC) contains data about Natchez, Mississippi’s free Black community during the Spanish era (1779-1795) and after the United States acquired it in 1796 until 1865. It records the name of every free black individual who surfaced in the author’s research; diligent attention was paid to entering values l... |
Hatton, Katie, 2023, "Gates County Dismal Swamp Records Project, 1847-1861", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/WDDAMY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:AIPIDQPim4rTx2o/uFp1zA== [fileUNF]
The purpose of the Gates County Dismal Swamp Records Project dataset is to make available information related to the enslaved and free people of color from northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia who worked in the portion of the Great Dismal Swamp located within Gates County, North Carolina. The Dismal Swamp was the home to many maroo... |
Allen, Richard; Colbert, William, 2023, "Loftin Succession: Inventory and Appraisement, 1863", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RJP715, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:vzviGmddKs4rRUJNKAXlTA== [fileUNF]
This dataset consists of names of enslaved people appraised upon the deaths of Joel Loftin and Nancy Taylor Loftin in 1863 for the district court of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Unlike census records of the period, the inventory includes first names as well as age, color, gender, and appraised value. |
Block, Sharon, 2023, "Finding Enslaved and Free(d) People in Narratives of Early American Sexual Violence", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9IRPB4, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:w2BWWCPAmskbDzSb58B2dw== [fileUNF]
This dataset was created from a collection of over nine hundred incidents of sexual violence identified in the mainland North American British colonies and early United States from 1700-1820. Gathered from legal, manuscript, and print records in twenty archives, it identifies over four hundred individuals who were enslaved, of African descent, and/... |
Little, Paige; Madarang, Allen; Senh, Samory, 2023, "Prairie View College Oral Histories: Voices of the Formerly Enslaved", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GV8SQZ, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:b8MIwl66WR6IIt0nkmswRA== [fileUNF]
In the 1930s, students at Prairie View State Normal & Industrial College, under the direction of the college’s registrar and Arts and Sciences director, John Brother Cade, participated in a project to interview 229 formerly enslaved individuals from 17 states in the United States, as well as Indian Territory and Canada. Nearly early 70 years since... |
