Hey @letishasmith let me know your thoughts on these
Need to...
figure out if we actually need to merge slave-names and slaveholder-names datasets.
In the slaves-names data, the name of that slave's slaveholder is listed (in the slaveholder
column). The reverse is true for the slaveholder-names dataset. However, it is true that the datasets are of different sizes.
- Slave-Names is 685 x 6
- Slaveholder-Names is 687 x 6
so there is some discrepency that we will need to reconcile.
Need to...
decide if we want to submit the data "as-is" or do some cleaning. For example, should we split Name of Slave
column into separate First Name
and Last Name
columns? Same question for the County (or Parish), State
and Slaveholder Name
columns.
Example: I renamed the County, State columns to clarify to which party, slave or slaveholder, it is referring.
Example: The Other Identifying Information
column in the slave-names data seems to reliably contain occupation or role followed by the policy number (e.g. "Fireman Policy Number(s): 1588"). Should we break this up to two columns? Or are we leaving this for the Kagglers.
Need to...
complete data documentation in the overview.md
file.
Datasets to be compiled:
- Emancipation of Slaves in the District of Columbia,1862-1863
- Maranhão Inventories Slave Database
- Trans-Atlantic slave voyages (consists of 2 datasets of voyages & slaves that can be linked)
- .
- .
- Liberated Africans
- Slavery Era Insurance
- Texas Slavery Project
- Virginia Emigrants to Liberia (consists of 2 datasets of emancipated & emancipators that can be linked)