The Enslaved Community of President James Monroe with a Focus on Loudoun County, 1784-1849

The Enslaved Community of President James Monroe project began with the Black History Committee of the Friends of the Thomas Balch Library in Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. James Monroe, the 5th president of the United States, owned plantations in Albemarle and Loudoun Counties in Virginia, and he made his Loudoun property, Oak Hill, his retirement home after his second presidential term ended. The BHC wanted to learn more about the people enslaved there. A small group of independent researchers organized, created a research plan, and began their work in 2007, in preparation for a Friends fundraising event at Oak Hill. Research continued through 2011 and is done sporadically at present as new information is uncovered. The dataset contains extracted information about the people enslaved by Monroe and his family, including daughters Eliza and her husband George Hay; daughter Maria and her husband Samuel Gouverneur; the Hay’s daughter Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers; Monroe’s uncle Joseph Jones; and Monroe’s brother Andrew.

詹姆斯·门罗总统奴役社群研究项目由弗吉尼亚州劳登县利斯堡的托马斯·鲍尔奇图书馆之友（Friends of the Thomas Balch Library）下属黑人历史委员会（Black History Committee）发起。美国第五任总统詹姆斯·门罗曾在弗吉尼亚州阿尔伯马尔县与劳登县拥有种植园，其第二任总统任期结束后，将位于劳登县的产业橡树丘（Oak Hill）作为退休居所。该黑人历史委员会希望深入了解在此处被奴役的人群。2007年，一小批独立研究者组建团队、制定研究计划并启动工作，以筹备在橡树丘举办的图书馆之友筹款活动。研究工作持续至2011年，目前仍会在有新信息被发掘时不定期推进。本数据集收录了门罗及其家族奴役的人员的相关提取信息，包括其女儿伊丽莎（Eliza）与丈夫乔治·海（George Hay）、女儿玛丽亚（Maria）与丈夫塞缪尔·古弗尼尔（Samuel Gouverneur）、海家的女儿奥滕西娅·门罗·海·罗杰斯（Hortensia Monroe Hay Rogers）、门罗的舅舅约瑟夫·琼斯（Joseph Jones），以及门罗的兄弟安德鲁（Andrew）。