Dataset: Runaway Slaves advertised in 18th-century Jamaica Newspapers
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Jamaica
slavery
resistance
American Studies
History
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No scholar has yet published any articles or books using this dataset. Every scholar is welcome to use it for their own research. Douglass B. Chambers has published numerous articles and books, some of which draw on his analysis of the advertisements. See, for example, Chambers, D. B. (2011). Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of Biafra and the African Diaspora. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 44(3), 468-470. Available at: https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/350
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This dataset contains information coded from Newspaper advertisements for RUNAWAY SLAVES published in Eighteenth-Century JAMAICA. While there are some gaps in the records because of missing newspapers, there are still a considerable number of advertisements included. One feature of the ads is that man identify the African ethnicity of runaway slaves. Professor Douglas B. Chambers (and others in his project) transcribed and notated the advertisements and made them available online https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00021144/00001. More information about the project and the ads is available at https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00021144/00001/citation Anthony Wood, currently a PhD in history at the University of Michigan, did most of the hard work of coding. Professor Billy G. Smith checked the results to eliminate mistakes.