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Prado, Fabrício; Macias, Christen, 2022, "Colônia do Sacramento - Livro 5o. De Batismos (1763-1777)", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TSDYA7, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Founded in 1680, Colônia do Sacramento was the Portuguese effort to re-establish commercial routes between Brazil and Río de la Plata that once thrived during the Iberian Union (1580-1640). Colônia do Sacramento’s fast-paced growth was anchored in the expanding commerce and slave trade between Spanish- and Portuguese-America. The city developed int... |
Schindling, James; Wheat, David; Landers, Jane, 2022, "African Baptisms in Havana, Cuba, 1590-1600", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V3HWTX, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This dataset contains information on over one thousand Africans and people of African origin as depicted in Havana’s earliest extant baptismal register, a bound volume titled Libro de Barajas: Bautismos (Miscellaneous Book: Baptisms). Presently held in the Sagrada Catedral de San Cristóbal de La Habana in Havana, Cuba – and viewable online in digit... |
Rothman, Joshua D., 2022, "Franklin and Armfield Slave Sales in New Orleans, 1828-1836", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JYGE5F, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The company known as Franklin & Armfield was the largest slave-trading business in the United States during its years of operation from 1828 to 1836, and it may have been the largest in American history. Partners and agents of the company sold more than 1,600 enslaved people in New Orleans, which housed the largest market for enslaved people in the... |
Jun 30, 2022
Traweek, Virginia; Wardlaw, Malcolm, 2022, "Freedman’s Savings and Trust Bank Passbook and Dividend Repayment Records", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/635X6E, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:2JhIwpCijX0+8c916shp1Q== [fileUNF]
This dataset contains bank transaction and dividend records for the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Bank, which operated between 1865 and 1874 in the United States and served primarily newly freed, formerly enslaved people. The branch locations ranged from New York to Shreveport and from St. Louis to Jacksonville. The data consists of two parts: a ran... |
Dec 31, 2021
Finkel, Jill; Jackson, Armani; Jarrett, Brooklyn; Nelson, Kamryn; Reeves, Sarah, 2021, "The Account Book of Charles B. Calvert in Southern Maryland, 1830-1860", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7UG07H, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The dataset transcribes the information of over 300 enslaved people documented in the Slave Account Book of Charles Benedict Calvert of Prince George’s County, Maryland, which can be found in Special Collections at the University of Maryland library. Calvert was an enslaver and politician and one of the founders of what is now the University of Mar... |
Dec 31, 2021
Lemons, J. Stanley, 2021, "People of Color in the First Baptist Church of Providence, Rhode Island to 1868", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JHDCJX, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Based on church records to 1869, the following dataset includes all identified people of color in the First Baptist Church of Providence, RI. The First Baptist was one of the white churches that helped to launch and sustain the African Union. For the black community, the African Union Meeting was a place of their own, where they could worship as th... |
Dec 31, 2021
Sutton, Angela, 2021, "Enslaved and Free Black Builders of Nashville's Civil War Fortifications, 1862-1863: A List from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UTPZMZ, Harvard Dataverse, V1
The list of Enslaved and Free Black Builders of Nashville's Civil War Fortifications, 1862-63, is an index of forms the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers kept about each enslaved and free Black man, woman, and child who worked on the Union fortifications of the city of Nashville during the Civil War. The original ledger is titled "Employment Rolls and N... |
Dec 31, 2021
Rosenberg, Alexandra, 2021, "Whaleboat Escape from Northampton County, Virginia, 1832", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IZC1PB, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:TEl0Enb7rHp/KR3+t9DcjQ== [fileUNF]
In July 1832, seventeen fugitives from slavery and one free Black man stole a whaleboat and fled Northampton County, Virginia, with the goal of attaining freedom in New York City. The dataset contains the names of the eighteen freedom-seekers who stole the whaleboat, the names of their enslavers, and the locations of properties owned by the enslave... |
Taylor, Jordan E., 2021, "Newspaper-Brokered Slave Trade Advertisements in North America, 1704-1807", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EJOJJO, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:SGqgWsWug+sqVs/livuQLg== [fileUNF]
Newspapers and newspaper printers played a crucial role in brokering the sales of enslaved people in eighteenth-century North America. This dataset collects information from more than 2,100 newspaper advertisements that document printers’ involvement in trafficking thousands of enslaved people. It extends from 1704, when the first long-running news... |
Hill, Kate; Flinn, Kara Evans, 2021, "Missouri Bills of Sale", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/37NFNH, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:TR/VLZdSH4tE0GlEKoXQDQ== [fileUNF]
This collection contains one bill of sale for two slaves sold by Cleopatra Frazier and one copy of a bill of sale for one slave sold by Samuel McClure. It also contains a notice by Theodore Duncan announcing the auction of 10 slaves. All three documents include the names and ages of the enslaved persons being sold. The documents were created betwee... |
