slave listing entitled "The Schedule Continued"
notes: label: Description
content: In 1995, the NMAH was given a large folded parchment sheet listing slaves in three columns. The heading of the page, "The Schedule Continued," clearly indicates the page was removed from a multi-page ledger. The first column of names is headed "North Side Mountain Estate'; the second two are headed "Turnbull Mountain Estate". There are 116 names on the document, listed with their sex, age, race, and country (of origin) of each individual. The races are "mulatto" or "black"; the countries are "Africa" or "Creole". Ages range from four months to 60 years, with most individuals between 10 and 25 years. On the upper left edge of the document, there is an impressed blue British Customs stamp with a small metal seal and small crown with the initials "GR" for George Rex of England. The British King Georges I-IV reigned from 1714-1830; the design of the crown and monogram may be dateable to cognoscenti.
label: Description
content: The document came with the donor story that it had been authenticated by the British Museum as one of a 13-page original ship's manifest referencing the transport of slaves to a tobacco plantation in the Virginia lands. According to the story, the vessel sailed in late 1827 and arrived in February 1828. The donor acquired it from an English friend "clearing out an attic" and mailed it to her "years ago". Upon receipt of the document by the NMAH, the British Museum was contacted for further information. The institution had no prior knowledge of this manuscript.
label: Description
content: The file was shelved for a time and then reopened by volunteer Dr. Raymond Hayes, then of the Anatomy Department at Howard University (now retired). Dr. Hayes conducted considerable research and found that there were two nearby estates with the same names as listed on the manuscript on the north side of the island of Tortola (British Virgin Islands), beginning on an estate map dated to 1798. These estates were then owned by a series of various Hodges (B. and heirs) in the late 18th century. The same names, only sligh
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Slavery
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. M. Proudman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2005.0128.01
label: catalog number
content: 2005.0128.01
label: accession number
content: 2005.0128
objectType: label: Object Name
content: document
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 20 3/16 in x 25 1/2 in; 51.27625 cm x 64.77 cm