Dataset: Slaves in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
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Penn collection
The Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD)
Discipline
Subject
African Americans
enslaved
slavery
slaves
History
enslaved
slavery
slaves
History
Region
Bucks County, PA
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Date issued
2015-01-21
Distributor
Scholarly Commons, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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Abstract
The Bucks County Register of Slaves includes the name, occupation, and township of enslavers as well as the name, gender, and age of persons enslaved in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Manumission dates, racial status, and other notes are also noted for some of the slaves.
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Originally compiled in .doc format.