Data · dataset · 2016
"Book of Negroes", 1783
Listed in Nova Scotia Government's Open Data Portal
The "Book of Negroes" is the single most important document relating to the immigration of African Americans to Nova Scotia following the War of Independence.
Description
It provides the names of 3000 black refugees registered on board the vessels in which they sailed from New York to Nova Scotia between 23 April and 30 November 1783.
Links
Get the data
- CSV data.novascotia.ca/api/views/xxcy-v3fh/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD ↗
download · from data novascotia ca
Where it is published
- data.novascotia.ca /Arts-Culture-and-History/-Book-of-Negroes-1783/xxcy-v3fh ↗
Nova Scotia Government's Open Data Portal dataset page
landing page · from data novascotia ca
Catalogue records · 1
- SODA API data.novascotia.ca/resource/xxcy-v3fh.json ↗
metadata API · from data novascotia ca
Topics
- Stated by source
- Arts, Culture and History
- From keywords
- Humanities
- Inferred from text
- Historical studies 71%
Provenance · 1 source records, 10 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nova Scotia Government's Open Data Portal | xxcy-v3fh | 9 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4303 | enrichment · data novascotia ca | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (71%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:humanities | mapping · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[topic].socrata_category:data_novascotia_ca:arts-culture-and-history | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | /resource/description |
| license_text | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 | /resource/name |
| updated_date | source · data novascotia ca | connector:data_novascotia_ca@1.0.0 |