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Fugitive Slaves

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.

Related Name

Costa, Tom (ed.)

Part of

H-Survey/H-Net Reviews / H-Net. Humanities Online

Release

East Lansing, Mich., Dec 2003 (Matrix/Michigan State University)

Extent

1 page/frame (ca. 73 KiB)

Last Visit

Apr 23, 2004.

Language

English

Related Name

Garrigus, John (transl.)

Part of

French Colonial Texts / Peabody, Sue

Release

Vancouver, Wash., n. d. [start page stamped Dec 2001] (Washington State University : History Department)

Extent

1 page (ca. 9 KiB)

Last Visit

Apr 25, 2004.

Notes

Excerpts from a manuscript source (French National Archives, Section Outre-mer, notary Gaudin, Nippes, register 738), selected and translated by Prof. John Garrigus, Jacksonville University. With a brief introductory note of the translator.

Language

English

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).

Part of

Documenting the American South, Beginnings to 1920 / The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : Academic Affairs Library

Release

Chapel Hill, N. C., © 1998

Extent

n/a

Last Visit

Jan 20, 2008.

Technical Notes

Texts in HTML and SGML, graphic materials in TIFF, JPEG, and GIF formats.

Notes

Ongoing project nearing completion. All texts available on the internet, correction of OCR results or SGML coding incomplete in a few cases. — Includes author, title, and subject indexes as well as a

• Collection of Electronic Texts
• An Introduction to the Slave Narrative
• Alphabetical Bibliography
• Chronological Bibliography
• Guide to Religious Content in Slave Narratives
• About the Project

Description

The collection makes available "all the narratives of fugitive and former slaves published in broadsides, pamphlets, or book form in English up to 1920 and many of the biographies of fugitive and former slaves published in English before 1920." The project also includes fictional or fictionalized slave narratives published in the 19th century.

Part of

Harriet Tubman Resource Centre on the African Diaspora

Related Name

Lovejoy, Paul (dir.)

Release

York, Canada, (York University : Dept. of History)

Extent

1 page/frame (ca. 15.9 KiB)

Last Visit

Aug 20, 2003.

Language

English

Description

Brief project description.

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