Report of Blacks in Burlington and Willingborough
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- Identifier
- NJS-SRC-02866
- Source Type
- Census or Register
- Date
- 1797 – 1798
- Description
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This document is a report enumerating free and enslaved Black people in Burlington, Burlington County. The names are presented in three columns:
1. Free Americans - this represents free people of color;
2. Slaves - this represents Black people enslaved in American (primarily English-speaking) households;
3. French - this represents Black people enslaved in Francophone households, a number of which were planter expatriates from Saint-Domingue who relocated to New Jersey during the Haitian Revolution and settled in the Burlington area.
The report lists the name of each head of household and counts how many male and female Black people are in the household. This means that column one lists the names of free Black people, but the other two columns list only the name of the enslaver and do not mention the names of the Black people who were enslaved in their household.
The document also contains a brief note about Willingboro (which had a handful of free Black residents and no slaves), but no names are recorded from that township.
This information was collected by the New Jersey Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. The report is undated. Other documents in the same file suggest that the society collected these reports circa 1797–1798. - Language
- English
- Format
- Handwritten document presented in three columns, single sheet double-sided
- Sequence Number
- 2003.5.6
- Archival Collection
- Abolition Collection (MSS 5)
- Archival Location
- Box 1, Folder 1: Negroes Census Records
- Record Contributor
- Jesse Bayker
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