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Related Name

Manning, Patrick (co-investigator)

Part of

ibiblio.org

Release

Durham, N. C., and Chapel Hill, N. C., n. d. [start page stamped Mar 2002] (The Center for the Public Domain, University of North Carolina)

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Apr 26, 2004.

Technical Notes

Databases of enslaved and free Afro-Louisianians available for download (ZIP files containing dBase, MS Access, and SPSS data, ca. 18 MB and 1.3 MB respectively). — Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.

Notes

Originally published on CD-ROM as part of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, ed., Databases for the Study of Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1699-1860 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000).

Language

English

Includes

• Introduction to the Data Set
• Database Search
• Samples of the original documents
• Charts and calculation
• List of slaves with African names
• List of slaves implicated in conspiracies or revolts
• List of runaways

Description

Online version of a database comprising records for more 100,000 slaves living in Louisiana between 1718 and 1820. The database can be searched by name, gender, racial designation, ehtnic origin of slaves as well as master's name, epoch (French/Spanish/American), and location of plantation. – Hall began work on the project after finding a large of notarial records at a Louisiana courthouse in 1984. The data principally regard the territory of today's state of Louisiana and are drawn from sources at numerous locations in that area as well as from some archives in neighboring states and in France.

Part of

Virtual Jamestown / University of Virginia : Virginia Center for Digital History, and University of Virginia : Electronic Text Center

Related Names

Shifflett, Crandall A. (project director) / Richter, Julie (project director)

Release

Charlottesville, Va., last update Oct 2003 (University of Virginia)

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Nov 3, 2003.

Technical Notes

An older interface continues to be available under the title Virginia runaways.

Notes

Draws on Lathan A. Windley, Runaway Slave Advertisements: A Documentary History from the 1730s to 1790 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983).

Language

English

Includes

• Database of newspaper ads (browse and search functions)
• Official records
• Newspaper materials
• Slaveholder records
• Slavery and servitude literature and narratives
• Costa, Tom: Source essay on runaway advertisements

Description

Database of some 2,400 newspaper advertisements for fugitives slaves and servants covering Maryland and Virginia in the years 1736-1777. An extension of coverage into the 19th century is planned. – See also the review by Kenneth W. Howell (H-Survey, September 2003).

Related Names

Eltis, David (ed.) et al.

Part of

History Collections / University of Florida : George A. Smathers Library

Release

Gainesville, Feb 2002

Extent

1 page/frame (ca. 9 KiB)

Last Visit

Jan 20, 2008.

Technical Notes

At present, the data set is not freely accessible, but the editors plan to migrate the database to an open-access web site (see guided tour with screenshots available at the Cambridge University Press web site.

Release

Greensboro, N. C., © 2000-2003 (University of North Carolina at Greensboro : Department of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro : Walter Clinton Jackson Library, Electronic Resources and Information Technology (ERIT))

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Apr 1, 2004.

Technical Notes

Not covered by the Slave-Studies.net search engine.

Language

English

Includes

• About the Petitions
• Sample of 21 Legislative and 7 County Court Petitions

Description

The web site provides access to a database containing ca. 3,000 petitions submitted to Southern legislatures from the 1770s to the 1860s. More than 15,000 county court petitions from the same period will be made available in the course of the next years. An advanced search facility allows to access records by state, date, name of slaveholder, name, gender, and color of slave concerned, etc. The records include brief summaries of the petitions, which have been published on microfilm. – See also the sample of legislative petitions published in the volume The Southern Debate over Slavery (full text available online).

Related Names

Curtin, Philip D. (comp.) / Klein, Herbert S. (comp.) / Engerman, Stanley L. (comp.)

Part of

DPLS Archives / University of Wisconsin-Madison : Data and Program Library Service (DPLS)

Release

Madison, © 1996-2008

Extent

n/a [incl. 260 KiB zip file containing all data sets]

Last Visit

Jan 20, 2008.

Technical Notes

Download of data sets requires cost-free registration. Available in ZIP (DOS/Win) and TAR (Unix) compression formats.

Notes

Data sets originally compiled and published 1967-1974; DPLS editions 1973-1978. All sets accompanied by online code books and study descriptions. – Includes

Related Names

Walther, Eric (director)

Release

Houston, Tex., active 2000-2002

Extent

38 pages : illustr., 1 MS Excel file

Last Visit

Jan 20, 2008.

Technical Notes

Originally at: http://www.texasslaveryproject.uh.edu/. – Withdrawn. – Record points to list of pages stored at the

Description

Interdisciplinary research project attempting to compile biographical information on all slaves who lived in Texas. The Documents/Sources page identifies the material that was to be covered and includes internal links to several substantial samples already put online by the project. — The site was taken offline for renovation in 2002 and permanently withdrawn in 2005.

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