Hi all, Sharing some information from another mail list. Cherryl =========================================== Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:41:41 -0500 (CDT) From: SelInVa@aol.com Subject: I had the pleasure of attending the "TRANSATLANTIC SLAVING AND AND AFRICAN DIASPORA: Using the W.E.B. DUBOIS Dataset of Slaving Voyages" held in Williamsburg, Va. this past weekend (I will be posting information about that dataset which includes information on over 27,000 slaving voyages to the Americas - not just the U.S. which accounted for less than 10% of the slave trade). On Saturday Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (history professor Rutgers University, emeritus) gave a wonderful presentation on the Relational Database, Louisiana Slaves, 1723-1820. DATABASES FOR THE STUDY OF LOUISIANA HISTORY AND GENEALOGY (Louisiana State University Press) - available in CD ROM format, for which she served as editor, which will be available in Jan. 1999 at a cost of less than $50.00. It will include the following info: Spreadsheet by Patrick Manning -Births, Marriages, and Deaths from the Sacremental Records of the Catholic Church of Louisiana 1720-1820; Gwen Midlo Hall - Louisiana Slave Manumissions 1720-1820, 3,898 records, 92 fields, Shipping Data Through the Port of New Orleans through 1820, and the New Orleans Census of 1778. It contains 90,330 records, each representing a slave, 123 fields (consisting of comparable info) entered almost entirely from original manuscript sources in French, Spanish, and English. Complete source information with exact date and location is included. A sampling of specific fields. Names of Slaves: 82, 491 legible names, 5,647 different African names, 10,044 total African names, 9, 229 names which could be African or European; 8,308 missing or illegible. First and last names of deceased, sellers or owners and buyers of slaves. Gender of slaves: males 49,045; females 38,454; unidentified 2,829. Race of Slaves: black: 77,34; mulatto: 4,999; quadroon; 252; octoroon = 1; Indian 201; grif 850; other 26; total unidentified 83, 960; unidentified 6370. Age of slaves Numeric age: 73,380, by age categories: child - 2931, young and adult -8481; old -303; total age categories - 11,715. Birthplace identified: 30,007; Africans whose ethnicities are identified: 10256; Africans whose ethnicities is not given or remains unidentified; 6,148 ; Birthplace unidentified 60,323; Slave trade voyage on which slaves arrived: about 250 distinct ships, many making several voyages, coming from ports in Africa, The Caribbean and the US. A must for anyone researching Louisianna...I will keep you posted when I get specific info when it will be available. Selma - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion - - To unsubscribe, email: Majordomo@MsState.Edu - - In body of message: unsubscribe afrigeneas - - - - Afrigeneas archives: http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/