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Dangerous Harbor Project - Lancaster County - Reel 260 - Emancipation Bills, 1653-1850 - TIFFs 1-8

This dataset includes 8 TIFF files showing emancipation bills from Lancaster County in Virginia. They were created by enslavers or “masters” seeking to free indentured servants or enslaved people from their servitude. These documents were collected in association with the Dangerous Harbor Project which used courthouse documents to identify escaped unfree laborers in the 17th century Chesapeake and the punishments associated with their escape.


To learn more about this project, please go to the Dangerous Harbor Website.

Funding

National Endowment for the Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources

History

Publisher

University Libraries, Virginia Tech

Location

Lancaster County, Virginia

Corresponding Author Name

Jessica Taylor

Corresponding Author E-mail Address

jessicataylor@vt.edu

Files/Folders in Dataset and Description

Naming conventions of files: There are 3 parts to the file naming convention of the court orders. For example: LancasterOrders_1655-1666_0001 LancasterOrders: Identifies the county the court documents are from and the type of document 1655-1666: Identifies the timeframe in which the court documents were written 0001: Identifies the page’s position within the reel