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- 16:40, 13 September 2023 diff hist −1 date (P28) Changed [en] label: startsAt Tag: Reverted
- 16:30, 13 September 2023 diff hist 0 startsAt (P82) Changed [en] label: startsat Tag: Reverted
- 16:24, 13 September 2023 diff hist +5 date (P28) Changed [en] label: starts At Tag: Reverted
- 18:13, 18 July 2023 diff hist +2 hasExternalReference (P21) Changed [en] label: Related Data Resources Tag: Reverted
- 16:08, 6 July 2023 diff hist +643 Black Lives British Justice (Q968875) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset brings together all 698 known references to ‘Black’ or possibly Black African heritage people or groups in selected records of London’s criminal justice (1720-1841). The individuals were trial witnesses, victims, prosecutors, defendants, and people mentioned in passing during testimony. current
- 15:55, 6 July 2023 diff hist +640 New York Burning (Q968787) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): Over a few short weeks in 1741, ten fires blazed across [New York C]ity. Nearly two hundredslaves were suspected of conspiring to burn every building and murder every white. Tried and convicted before the colony’s Supreme Court, thirteen black men were burned at the stake. Seventeen more were hanged. current
- 15:34, 6 July 2023 diff hist +712 Fugitives from Slavery in Jamaica (Q968610) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): We created two datasets about fugitives and captives in eighteenth-century Jamaica, one of the most violent systems of racial bondage in the Atlantic World. To produce the first dataset as an Excel file, we organized and recorded information contained in hundreds of newspaper advertisements offering rewards for the return of escaped slaves in Jamaica between 1718 and 1795. current
- 15:32, 6 July 2023 diff hist +727 Louisiana Slave Conspiracies (Q967118) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): 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 analyzing manuscripts from these conspiracies. current
- 15:27, 6 July 2023 diff hist +656 Virginia Untold (Q967077) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black and multiracial people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Traditional description, indexing, transcription, and digitization are major parts of this effort.
- 15:26, 6 July 2023 diff hist −640 Black Virginians in Blue (Q961213) Removed claim: hasDescription (P66): Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black and multiracial people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Traditional description, indexing, transcription, and digitization are major parts of this effort. current Tag: Manual revert
- 15:26, 6 July 2023 diff hist +640 Black Virginians in Blue (Q961213) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): Virginia Untold: the African American Narrative provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black and multiracial people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Traditional description, indexing, transcription, and digitization are major parts of this effort.
- 15:22, 6 July 2023 diff hist +615 Black Virginians in Blue (Q961213) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): The Black Virginians in Blue digital project uncovers the stories of Black men from Albemarle County, Virginia, who served in the Union military during the Civil War. The dataset contains 911 named individuals: 251 soldiers, 6 sailors, and all of their known wives and children.
- 15:18, 6 July 2023 diff hist +729 Missouri Bills of Sale (Q961205) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): Contrary to sprawling plantations of the Deep South, slavery throughout the state of Missouri often operated on a smaller, decentralized scale. Less than 10 percent of the state’s slaveholders owned more than ten enslaved persons during the 1850s. Slavery in Missouri began to collapse in the early years of the Civil War, as many slaves took advantage of the political and social upheaval. current
- 15:14, 6 July 2023 diff hist +666 Take Them In Families (Q734407) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): The “Take Them in Families” project began with the objective of identifying the enslaved families who James Monroe sold to Casa Bianca. The project is genealogical; therefore, this dataset records the names of all those who had been enslaved at Casa Bianca along with their descendants and traces family lines to the present. current
- 15:07, 6 July 2023 diff hist +737 Economics of American Negro Slavery Series (Q627623) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This study includes data on slave sales that occurred on the New Orleans slave market between 1804-1862. For each sale, information was recorded on the date of the sale, the number of slaves on the invoice, the sale price, and characteristics of the slaves sold. The information presented for each transaction was obtained from the notarized bills of sale in the New Orleans Notarial Archival Office. current
- 15:02, 6 July 2023 diff hist +625 Contested Freedom (Q624610) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): The dataset names 1,321 free individuals of color residing in Chatham County. In 1818 the Georgia state legislature enacted a law with the mandate for all free persons of color to register themselves. In instances when free persons of color failed to register, they risked re-enslavement. current
- 14:53, 6 July 2023 diff hist +731 Free Africans of Brazil (Q624576) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset documents the public notice of 660 Free African “disappearances,” published in various newspapers of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between March 1835 and August 1863 .The dataset draws from the three main dailies of the Brazilian capital circulating in the nineteenth century —Correio Mercantil e Instructivo, Politico, Universal; Diário do Rio de Janeiro; and Jornal do Commercio. current
- 14:44, 6 July 2023 diff hist +733 Slaves in Post Mortem Estate Inventories (Q549379) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset includes nominal registries of enslaved laborers and slave families from 923 post-mortem property inventories between 1821 and 1888. This dataset lists 30,533 enslaved individuals from various estates. Inventoried estates are listed by the names of the deceased estate owner and executor, as well as the name(s) and location(s) of properties (including enslaved persons) inventoried. current
- 14:37, 6 July 2023 diff hist +719 Newspaper Brokered Slave Trade Advertisements in North America (Q503896) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset focuses on newspaper advertisements in which newspaper printers acted as brokers in the sale of enslaved people. It extends from 1704 through 1807, after which the transatlantic slave trade officially ended. It contains more than 2,100 eighteenth-century North American newspaper advertisements that document the possible trafficking of at least 3,000 enslaved persons. current
- 14:33, 6 July 2023 diff hist +708 CSI Dixie (Q490726) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset is a subset of relevant records drawn from the larger CSI:Dixie (CSI:D) database, an active digital project seeking to record and analyze causes of death as revealed in coroners’ inquisitions taken in the nineteenth-century American South. At present, the CSI:D inquest database includes some 28,000 cases drawn from South Carolina, Virginia, and Missouri. current
- 14:24, 6 July 2023 diff hist +707 Fairfax Court Slavery Index (Q407631) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): The goal was to create a master index of enslaved persons (and those subject to some form of involuntary servitude) who appear in the records between the years 1742 and 1870. Each index card contains descriptive information such as age, skilled trades, family relationships, and monetary value, the record’s citation, as well as the date of the document’s recording. current
- 14:08, 6 July 2023 diff hist +698 Biographies of the Enslaved Era (Q280811) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): The full collection contains over 6,000 biographical entries of named historical individuals, including 1,304 for subjects born before 1865 and the abolition of slavery in the United States. The goal was to extract life details from those biographies into an easy-to-view database form that details whether a subject was enslaved for some or all of their lives. current
- 14:01, 6 July 2023 diff hist +733 Legacies of British Slavery (Q13445) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): (LBS) project (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs ) has developed in two main phases. First, the project identified those who claimed compensation for the loss of their “property,” i.e. the 670,000 enslaved people, when slavery in the British Caribbean was abolished in 1833. Second, the work has pushed back into the period from the 1760s to 1833 to identify the owners of the enslaved on plantations. current
- 13:46, 6 July 2023 diff hist −634 Louisiana Slave Database (Q11586) Removed claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset contains over 104,000 records, with 162 fields each containing descriptions of enslaved people found in original manuscript documents. The project stopped with 1820 when descriptions of the African ethnicities of slaves became sparse in Louisiana at the same time as the volume of documents escalated. Tag: Manual revert
- 13:46, 6 July 2023 diff hist +634 Louisiana Slave Database (Q11586) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset contains over 104,000 records, with 162 fields each containing descriptions of enslaved people found in original manuscript documents. The project stopped with 1820 when descriptions of the African ethnicities of slaves became sparse in Louisiana at the same time as the volume of documents escalated.
- 13:37, 6 July 2023 diff hist +650 Louisiana Slave Database (Q11586) Created claim: hasDescription (P66): This dataset contains over 104,000 records, with 162 fields each containing descriptions of enslaved people found in original manuscript documents. The project stopped with 1820 when descriptions of the African ethnicities of slaves became sparse in Louisiana at the same time as the volume of documents escalated.