Louisiana Slave Database, 1719-1820

Louisiana Slave Database (1719-1820) contains over 104,000 records, with 162 fields each containing descriptions of enslaved people found in original manuscript documents. African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners, slaves' testimony and emancipations, type of document(s) where they were found, and where to retrieve the original document are some of the major fields. The project included all the geographic areas now constituting the State of Louisiana through 1820 and also included some documents originating in or involving parts of what are now Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The project stopped in 1820 when descriptions of the African ethnicities of slaves became sparse in Louisiana at the same time as the volume of documents escalated.路易斯安那奴隶数据库（Louisiana Slave Database，1719-1820）收录逾104000条记录，每条记录包含162个字段，各字段内容均为原始手稿文献中记载的被奴役者相关信息。其核心字段涵盖非洲奴隶姓名、性别、年龄、职业、健康状况、家族关系、族裔背景、出身地、奴隶主购奴价格、奴隶证词与解放记录、所涉文献类型，以及原始文献的获取渠道等。该项目的史料覆盖范围为1820年之前的现今路易斯安那州全境，同时也收录了一部分源自或涉及现今密西西比州、阿拉巴马州与佛罗里达州的相关文献。该项目于1820年终止，彼时路易斯安那地区关于奴隶非洲族裔的记载日渐稀少，而同期相关文献的体量却大幅攀升。