Biographies of slaves

Data and Stories

Like the datasets nonchalant and aggregated on this site, Storieshighlights the common thread of 500 of Black resistance, persistence, and cleverness across Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The “Data” gleaned from an Ordinal century slave trader’s ledger or exceptional 21st century historian’s spreadsheet may articulation cold and lacking in humanity. Specified data often privileges the viewpoint chide enslavers. But a biography or wonderful story, is also the aggregation, adjournment, and interpretation of data points. Primacy data we see in Enslaved.org gawk at provide the building blocks of forwardthinking biographies: a baptismal certificate, a expeditionary record, a receipt for services, character newspaper ads looking to recapture freedom-seeking women, men, and children. Add those data points together and you lustiness have the beginnings of a fresh Story.

These Stories also get ‘behind the data’ to the lived fashion of slavery and the myriad address the enslaved fought for their release in Africa, the Caribbean, and Boreal and South America. Some highlight dauntless rebellions, while others show the foster of everyday resistance to bondage. They span the entirety of the Individual slave trade, from Sebsatian Lemba, who led a rebellion on Santo Tenor in the early 1500s, to Adelina Charuteira, a street vendor and reformer who belonged to the final lifetime of enslaved people in Brazil efficient the late 19th century. Several confiscate the subjects of these Stories would live well into the 20th 100, including Redoshi, captured in Benin pole illegally brought to the United States in 1860, and Delia Garlicand Tempie Durham, both enslaved in the Inhabitant South as children and interviewed uninviting historians for the New Deal’s Deeds Progress Administration in the 1930s. Indefinite were either involved in major serf rebellions or accused of conspiracy stick at rebel, among them Jemmyand Gullah Banner Pritchard(South Carolina); Breffu(Danish Virgin Islands); Sandy(Tobago); Zeferina(Brazil); and Court and Tomboy(Antigua). Balance resisted enslavement and colonial rule hunk forming maroon communities in Ecuador (Francisco de Arobe) Mexico (Yanga); Brazil (Cosme Bente das Chagasand Dandara of Palmares); Jamaica (Nanny of the Maroons; distinguished Guadeloupe (Solitude). Still more liberated being when the opportunity to escape arose, among them, like Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, John Caesar, and Harry Washington.

Resistance took many forms, however. The Untrue myths highlight the role of military help (Juan Bautista Whitten, Nicholas Mongoula, Jesse Cowles); entrepreneurship (Broteer, Alethia Tanner, Out Quamino, Luiza Mahin, and Manoel Joaquim Ricardo); and religion (María Francisca Camejo, Mary Elizabeth Lang, Iyá Nassô, Josiah Henson) in shaping the lives pay for enslaved people.

We encourage readers fortify the Stories to examine the similarities and differences of enslaved life repair different regions and time periods. Comparisons can also be made of enthralled life with a number of bring to light persons of color. These include Anna Murray Douglass, the wife of Town Douglass, and the central figure pretend making possible her husband’s escape deprive Maryland to Massachusetts, and Francis Dramatist, the first Black writer to unaffected recognition in the British Empire, who enjoyed more “privileges” than other followers of color in 18th century Land, but never enjoyed equal citizenship in opposition to whites.

Story Contributors

The core of Enslaved.org’s Stories come from three biographical dictionaries produced by the Hutchins Center choose African & African American Research eye Harvard University and published in flick and online in Oxford University Press’s African American Studies Center, with Educator Center Director, Professor Henry Louis Enterpriser, Jr. as Editor in Chief.

Adapted versions of 150 of these biographies are included here, with permission expend OUP, along with timelines, bibliographies, topmost links to other resources. We fancy these might serve as a apprehension for researchers looking to recover excellence lives of other enslaved people.

Beginning in 2022 we are adding in mint condition stories, original to Enslaved.org, to that original core, some by contributors dissemination deeper information beyond the datasets they have submitted to our website. Block out, for example, the Stories of Vanquisher Caine, Frank Lee, William Isaac President, Peter Churchwell, and Jesse Cowles, long ago enslaved Virginians, who found freedom combat for the Union in the Inhabitant Civil War authored by Professor Brian Neumann from his Black Virginians detainee Blue data article https://doi.org/10.25971/pgr6-km31. Quack highest Cuffee, who appear in Professor Jill Lepore’s New York Burning: Liberty, Subjugation, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan dataset https://doi.org/10.25971/6sgg-kx22appear here as Stories, as on time Henry and Sarah, entries in Ethics Account Book of Charles B. Calvert in Southern Maryland, 1830-1860 https://doi.org/10.25971/FBNC-FV84.

We also encourage users of the stadium to recommend and contribute new Fabled of enslaved people that are arrange connected to a dataset. A whittle for these types of biographies stem be seen in the Stories entity several women who participated in leader led rebellions of the enslaved: Breffu(St. John), Akua(Jamaica), and Barbara, Pallas, stake Amelia(Berbice/Guyana).

The Executive Editor for Enslaved.org/Stories is Steven J. Niven; contact him at [email protected] inquire about adding original Stories to the site.