Take Them in Families: The Enslaved People of Casa Bianca Plantation, Florida

The “Take Them in Families” project began with the objective of identifying the enslaved families who former United States president James Monroe sold to Casa Bianca, a plantation located in Jefferson County, Florida. While uncovering the story of Casa Bianca Plantation, we detected that other groups of enslaved people had been purchased for the plantation and decided to expand our dataset to all those enslaved at Casa Bianca. The Take Them in Families project is genealogical; therefore, this dataset records the names of all those who had been enslaved at Casa Bianca along with their descendants and traces family lines to the present. This dataset can assist researchers in exploring the geographical origins of the enslaved in Middle Florida during its early settlement and territorial period. It also allows for the study of post-Emancipation migration patterns for the region. We have made this information available on our website, TakeThemInFamilies.com.

‘Take Them in Families’项目最初的目标是确认美国前总统詹姆斯·门罗曾售卖予佛罗里达州杰斐逊县卡萨比安卡（Casa Bianca）种植园的被奴役家庭。在挖掘卡萨比安卡种植园历史的过程中，我们发现该种植园还购入过其他群体的被奴役人员，因此决定将数据集的覆盖范围扩展至所有曾在卡萨比安卡种植园遭受奴役的人员。
‘Take Them in Families’项目属于谱系学研究范畴，因此本数据集记录了所有曾在卡萨比安卡种植园遭受奴役的人员及其后代的姓名，并将家族血脉追溯至当代。本数据集可辅助研究者探究佛罗里达中部地区早期定居与领地时期内被奴役人员的地理起源，同时也可用于研究该区域黑奴解放后的移民模式。我们已将相关信息公开于项目官网TakeThemInFamilies.com。