Advertising Gender Slave Database: Escravos de ganho in Rio de Janeiro, 1850-1880

This dataset classifies information on approximately 1,700 escravos de ganho, or rental slaves, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 1850 and 1880. Culled from a sample of announcements published in the city’s main business newspaper, the Jornal do Commercio (est. 1827), the dataset systematically records the sex and occupations of enslaved peoples advertised for hire. When available, it also includes information on age, race, rental rates, location of the owner, and additional observations on the occupational training, character, and capabilities of the available enslaved person. The dataset includes a sample of advertisements published every ten years beginning in 1850. The four years of the sample correspond to some of the major events leading to final emancipation in 1888, including the closing of the transatlantic slave trade (1850) and the Law of the Free Womb (1871). The dataset includes links to the original full-text classified advertisement, found in digitized copy in the Brazilian National Library’s Hemeroteca Digital.

本数据集收录并分类了1850年至1880年间巴西里约热内卢地区约1700名租赁奴隶（escravos de ganho，对应英文rental slaves）的相关信息。该数据集取材自该市主流商业报纸《商业日报（Jornal do Commercio）》（创刊于1827年）刊载的广告样本，系统记录了广告中待雇佣奴隶的性别与职业。若信息可获取，数据集还会收录该奴隶的年龄、种族、租赁价格、奴隶主所在地，以及关于其职业训练、品行与能力的补充记述。数据集选取了1850年起每十年的广告样本。本次选取的样本对应年份涵盖了1888年巴西最终废除奴隶制之前的若干重大历史事件，包括1850年跨大西洋奴隶贸易的终结，以及1871年的《自由子宫法》。数据集附带了原始分类广告的全文链接，这些广告的数字化副本馆藏于巴西国家图书馆数字报纸馆（Hemeroteca Digital）。