Finding Enslaved and Free(d) People in Narratives of Early American Sexual Violence

This dataset was created from a collection of over nine hundred incidents of sexual violence identified in the mainland North American British colonies and early United States from 1700-1820. Gathered from legal, manuscript, and print records in twenty archives, it identifies over four hundred individuals who were enslaved, of African descent, and/or of Native American descent. This collection offers unique historical evidence about individuals who may not appear in any other extant records. Significantly, it reveals how enslaved and free(d) Black and Indigenous people both addressed and were involved in incidents of sexual violence, revealing how communities of color are far more visible in historical records than has been traditionally recognized.本数据集源自1700年至1820年间，在北美大陆英属殖民地及早期美利坚合众国境内识别出的900余起性暴力事件合集。该数据集从20家档案馆的法律档案、手稿与印刷记录中搜集整理而来，共识别出400余名被奴役的非裔及/或原住民血统个体。本合集为那些可能未见于其他现存档案的个体提供了独特的历史佐证。尤为重要的是，该数据集揭示了被奴役与获得自由的非裔及原住民群体如何对性暴力事件作出应对，且自身牵涉其中，同时展现出有色人种社群在历史记录中的可见度远超以往学界的传统认知。