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Mar 30, 2023
Luck, Patrick, 2023, "Louisiana Runaway Slave Advertisements Dataset, 1801-1820", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IQQJHI, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Q9M8ZEpSsAY3nMeioXtc7A== [fileUNF]
The Louisiana Runaway Slave Advertisements Database (LRSAD) contains information about 861 individuals who appeared in 691 advertisements placed in Louisiana (predominantly New Orleans) newspapers between 1801 and 1820. These advertisements were mostly placed by enslavers wishing to capture someone who they claimed to enslave but had escaped or by... |
Kimball, Lori Hinterleiter; Saffer, Wynne, 2023, "The Enslaved Community of President James Monroe with a Focus on Loudoun County, 1784-1849", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YPEK0F, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:tGhaTGjmff+2d0UEdwcI7w== [fileUNF]
The Enslaved Community of President James Monroe project began with the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. James Monroe, the 5th president of the United States, owned plantations in Albemarle and Loudoun Counties in Virginia, and he made his Loudoun property, Oak Hill, his retir... |
Bon-Harper, Sara; Stetz, Nancy, 2022, "Enslaved Lives Documented in the Slaveholding of James Monroe, Virginia Planter and Political Figure, 1774-1836", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TNMLSA, Harvard Dataverse, V2, UNF:6:zu5KElcTakfz0t1VEQy/BQ== [fileUNF]
Enslaved Lives Documented in the Slaveholding of James Monroe, Virginia Planter and Political Figure, 1774-1836 is a dataset of 178 individuals who are known from the documentary record to have been enslaved by James Monroe during his adulthood. The primary contribution of the work is to identify and document individual lives from inconsistent sour... |
Neuroth, Lydia; Bennett, Jessica; Burgess, Jessica, 2022, "Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative: Petitions to Remain in the Commonwealth", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/G5XLLB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:1MmryYkr+yvMQ8+QruLzkg== [fileUNF]
Virginia 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. The subset entitled Petitions to Remain in the Commonwealth include applications that formerly enslave... |
Downey, Meika; Laird, Patrick; Cooke, Jennifer, 2022, "Enslaved People of Patrick Henry’s Scotchtown, 1771-1778", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XPWRYA, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:c+xsuwz8FQh7UbDFc2MCYw== [fileUNF]
This dataset documents the individuals that noted patriot, “Orator of the Revolution,” and two-time governor of Virginia, Patrick Henry (b. 1736-d. 1799), enslaved on his Hanover County plantation, Scotchtown, from 1771 to 1778. At the current time, the known records documenting Henry’s acquisition and dispensing of enslaved people during his years... |
Erpenbach, Sasha, 2022, "Enslaved and Free Persons at Patrick Henry’s Red Hill", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2LCBGJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Ux+9HsCt8LwktNbpyk9M7Q== [fileUNF]
This dataset is an overview of information known about individuals that were enslaved by Patrick Henry (1736-1799), the Revolutionary Era patriot and Virginia governor famed for his “Give me Liberty, or Give me Death” speech and later his son John (1796-1868) at their home of Red Hill in Charlotte County, VA primarily from 1794 onward. This data co... |
Clark, Emma; Neuroth, Lydia, 2022, "Enslaved People of the John Marshall House, 1783-1835", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5XQVRD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:PsEDZzfwpZD9Xo/Ps8j6JA== [fileUNF]
This dataset documents the enslaved people owned by Chief Justice John Marshall (b. 1755, d. 1835) from 1783-1835, most of whom labored at his Richmond home. In his early life, Marshall inherited enslaved individuals from his father and through marriage to his wife, Mary Willis Ambler. Throughout his adult life he actively purchased and sold indivi... |
Frontiera, Patricia; Powell, Susan; Small, Shadrick; Thomas, Jenelle; Wagner, Bryan, 2022, "The 1791 and 1795 Slave Conspiracies in Pointe Coupée, Louisiana: A Geospatial Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SQJ3O9, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This dataset includes geospatial information concerning places mentioned in the trial records related to two slave conspiracies organized at the Pointe Coupée Post in the Spanish territory of Louisiana in 1791 and 1795. The data was created by a research team at UC Berkeley dedicated to preserving, digitizing, transcribing, translating, and analyzi... |
Aug 31, 2022
Small, Shadrick; Frontiera, Patricia; Thomas, Jenelle; Wagner, Bryan, 2022, "The 1791 and 1795 Slave Conspiracies in Pointe Coupée, Louisiana: A Bibliographic and Demographic Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/B3M15C, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This dataset includes complete bibliographic and demographic information from trial records related to two alleged slave conspiracies organized at the Pointe Coupée Post in the Spanish territory of Louisiana in 1791 and 1795. The data was created by a research team at UC Berkeley dedicated to preserving, digitizing, transcribing, translating, and a... |
Douma, Michael J., 2022, "Dutch-speaking Runaway Slaves in Early American Newspaper Advertisements, 1730-1825", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/QAANHW, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The Dutch-speaking Runaway Slaves dataset includes information 483 Dutch-speaking slaves and three black indentured servants who were reported fleeing their condition of bondage in the American colonies and early United States. The data comes primarily from newspaper advertisements digitized and made available through newspapers.com and ReadEx’s Ea... |
