Mulledy Hall, 1903

Thomas F. Mulledy, S.J. (1794-1861)

Jesuit Plantation Project

jesuitplantationproject.org

slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu

Enslaved Community owned by the Maryland Province Jesuits, 1740-1840

• 1,099 people
• 552 people with birth years
• 390 children with at least one named parent

• 32 Free people of color
• 30 enslaved people owned by others

Derived data

• Hand generated from document transcriptions
• Individuals and relationships processed to People with Unique ID, and then de-dupped
• Appearances processed to Events with participants
• Event types: birth, baptism, marriage, death, inventory, health, sale, legal, labor, commerce, conditions, travel, punishment, run away
• Imported to Omeka S to publish LOD

[1802 Dr St. Thomas's Manor in acct with Cash]
[1803]
[Jan]
26     To cash from Henny for 3 barrels corn @ $2   6.00  2.5.0
April 22    To Cash recd for sale of negro Constant, property of N.L. Sewall's estate  101.10.0

[opposite folio 1802 Contra Cr.]
[1803]
[Jan]
10    By do to do (the Taylor C. Layman) for making a servant's great coat  0.12.6
April 22  By Do [cash] to Mrs. Dorothy Digges for negro woman Jenny & her child  85.0.0

Linked Open Data

• Vocabularies with properties
  • Dublin Core, FOAF, Bio, Relationship, Schema

• Sentence format:
  • URI [property] URI
  • Isaac Hawkins, II [bio:childOf] Isaac Hawkins, I

• Resource Templates make up a Data Model
  • People
  • Events
  • Location

Social Network Analysis?

sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com

Why consider SNA for this community?

• Are these communities more or less stable than others?
• Are these kinship networks more or less dense than others?
• Can we see (and explain) meaningful change over time?

Questions about using SNA

• What does it mean to analyze a community that is bounded and has very little control over their inclusion/movement?

• With a significantly incomplete data set, what is the threshold at which social network analysis is revealing?

• What are the appropriate visualizations to provide an entry point to this medium-sized collection of data points?

Newtown Community

Social Network Measures

• Average Degree: Average number of connections

• Density: Inclusiveness (total number of points minus the isolated ones) and the sum of the degrees of its points

• Average Path Length: average number of edges from one point to another

Major Contagions

• Early 1790s: Small pox
• Near constant malaria
• 1827-1828: Typhoid

earlywashingtondc.org