Presence and Absence with Derived Historical Data:
The Enslaved People Owned and Sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits
Sharon M. Leon
@sharonmleon
@ACHorg | July 26, 2019
all our married people who had married out of our farms, have been sold to the masters of their husbands or wifes, or to the next neighbors of them, so that husbands & wives are together, but some children who could not be sold with their mothers, have been sent with the others to Louisiana. There remain in our farms only few old people, well provided for their life times. So old Isaac remained at W. Marsh
Fidelis Grivel to Charles Lancaster, May 4, 1839
Old Isaac Remained
Isaac Hawkins Hall (Mulledy Hall)
The Hawkins Family
Jesuit Plantation Project
slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu
Working with the Data of Slavery
[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
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
The Enslaved Group
- 1,132 individuals owned by the Jesuits (1717-1840)
- 598 individuals with birth years
- 48 enslaved people owned by others
- 34 free Blacks
Relationships in the Records
- 108 inferred partnerships
- 13 sacramental marriages
- 400 identified parental relationship
- 87 baptisms
- 141 births
- 56 deaths indicated
- 26 deaths with specific date
Linked Open Data
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- Those URIs are served over the web
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Labor: Compelled & Compensated
Agricultural Labor
January 1792
2. .... Cut out the Negroes Cloths, having got the cloth from the fuller only last Friday.....
N.B. Yesterday I engaged my overseer on a fixed yearly salary instead of a certain share of the crop, as he had hitherto been, according to the agreement with my predecessor.
3. (Tues.) Two hands
7. (Sat.) Hands cutting wood.
9. (Mond.) Two hands cutting wood; the others husking corn. [continues through month and February]
Robert Molyneux, SJ, Bohemia Manor
Skilled Labor
- Carpenters
- Shoemakers
- Blacksmith
- Millers
- Cook
- Midwives
Wages for Additional Work
[May 1794]
29 By 1
June 7 By
16 By cash paid to Clement Wheeler for <strike>Lawyer's fee</strike> traveling <strike>3.0.0 <strike>
expenses against freedom of negros 1.2.6
July 5 By cash paid to Charles in full for his ditching 0.18.11
[Aug]
8 By Cash paid to Jerry, Dick & George for ditching & c in full 2.0.3 1/2
[Oct]
10 By cash
St. Thomas's Manor Account Book
Labor: Motherwork & Family
Social Networks
- 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
Social Network Analysis?
Place | Average Degree | Density | Average Path |
---|---|---|---|
White Marsh + Fingale | 1.775 | 0.006 | 1.987 |
St. Thomas + Port Tobacco | 1.808 | 0.011 | 1.671 |
Newtown | 2.317 | 0.012 | 4.061 |
St. Inigoes | 0.409 | 0.002 | 1.619 |
Bohemia | 0.49 | 0.005 | 1.107 |
Newtown Network
Life and Labor
Day to Day Moments
- Life course events
- Everyday condition events (food, clothing, trade)
- Health and sickness events
- Labor events
- Travel events
- Discipline and resistance events
Presence and Absence with Derived Historical Data: The Enslaved People Owned and Sold by the Maryland Province Jesuits
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