Jamaican Slave Names in Plantation Inventories, 1731-1788

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Authors: Margaret Williamson, Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, John Bell
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/7wqpxf
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Abstract

The dataset is based on material transcribed from 13 eighteenth-century Jamaican plantation inventories and lists. It records the names of 3,162 enslaved individuals plus other information from the original manuscripts, in a format that both enables large-scale analysis and preserves each manuscript’s original detail. It also includes additional information for contextual and reference purposes, and an analysis of the most common name types recorded for the enslaved.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Colonialism slavery and trade Digital Humanities and Scholarship History of Colonial Brazil

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Harvard Dataverse
Publication date
12 January 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Dataset