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Enslaved People in the African American National Biography, 1508-1865

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Title Enslaved People in the African American National Biography, 1508-1865
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FIEYGJ
 
Creator Niven, Steven J.
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The "Enslaved People in the African American National Biography, 1508-1865" dataset builds on the complete print and online collection of the African American National Biography (AANB), edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. 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. In making a subset of biographical entries from the multivolume work, 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 and to provide the main biographical details of each subject for contextual analysis and comparison. 52 fields covering location data; gender; names, alternate names and suffixes; dates and places of birth and death; and up to 8 occupations were included. We also added 13 unique fields that provide biographical details on each subject: Free born in North America; Free before 13th Amendment; Ever Enslaved; How was freedom attained; Other/uncertain status; African born; Parent information; Runaways and rebels; Education/literacy; Religion; Slave narrative or memoir author; Notes; and Images.
 
Subject Arts and Humanities
Slavery
United States
Spanish, Dutch, French, and British colonial North America
 
Language English
 
Date 2021-01-23
 
Contributor Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation
 
Type Life History or Narrative
 
Source African American National Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham. New York: Oxford University Press, 8 vols., 2008; 12 vols., 2012.