Enslaved, Free, and Disabled Black Experiences from the Peter Daybook, Georgetown, D.C., 1796-1799

The dataset documents the biographical information of enslaved and free people documented in prominent Maryland enslaver Thomas Peter’s daybook. The daybook includes a list detailing the names, ages, and values of sixty-one enslaved individuals, originally described as his wife, Martha Parke Custis’s, patrimony list. A thorough transaction history in the daybook's second half describes Thomas Peter's involvement in both the domestic slave trade and the hiring free Black people.

本数据集记录了马里兰州著名奴隶主托马斯·彼得（Thomas Peter）的记事簿中所载被奴役者与自由民的生平信息。该记事簿包含一份详细清单，列明了六十一名被奴役者的姓名、年龄与身价，该清单最初被标注为其妻子玛莎·帕克·卡斯蒂斯（Martha Parke Custis）的祖传财产清单。记事簿后半部分载有详尽的交易记录，记述了托马斯·彼得参与国内奴隶贸易以及雇佣自由黑人的相关活动。