Item sets

• Commercial Transaction
  An event in which an enslaved person is part of a transaction that involves the buying or selling of goods, services, or labor. Sub-events include enslaved hire, enslaved loan, services, and small goods.
• Education
  An event in which an enslaved person is being educated.
• Freedom Status Transaction
  An event in which an enslaved person is part of a transaction that changes their status or ownership. Sub-events include dispute, emancipation, enslavement, exchange, manumission, purchase, sale, and transfer.
• Health
  An event in which an enslaved person is ill or undergoes a major bodily issue, sometimes requiring attendance from a healthcare provider. Sub-events include childbirth, illness, injury, medical treatment, and pregnancy.
• Labor
  An event in which an enslaved person is performing some kind of work. Sub-events include agriculture, domestic, midwifery, and skilled.
• Legal
  An event that involves a legal filing or proceeding related to an enslaved person. Sub-events include civil case, criminal case, dowry, freedom petition, manumission filing, probate, tax filing, and will.
• Life-course
  An event involving an enslaved person that is part of the normal course of a human lifetime. Sub-events include birth, burial, death, and marriage.
• Membership or participation
  An event in which an enslaved person joins or participates in a group. Sub-events include fraternal organization or military.
• Mention
  An event in which an enslaved person is noted in an unspecified way, e.g. correspondence that notes an encounter. Sub-events include disappearance and inventory.
• Narrative
  An event in which an enslaved person tells their own story. Sub-events include autobiography and testimony.
• Provisions
  An event in which provisions are acquired for use by enslaved people. Sub-events include clothing, food, housing, and supplies.
• Religious
  An event in which an enslaved person participates that is religious in nature, sometimes involving the presence of a member of the clergy. Sub-events include baptism, communion, confession, last rites, marriage sacrament, music, ordination, and preaching.
• Resistance
  An event in which an enslaved person takes action to resist their status or treatment, or that of a compatriot. Sub-events include appeal, defense, freedom seeking, property destruction, and work slow down.
• Travel
  An event in which an enslaved person moves from one location to another, often at the behest of an owner or trader. Sub-events include importation, relocation, and temporary.
• Violence
  An event in which an enslaved person suffers violence or oppression at the hands of another, often a non-enslaved person. Sub-events include capture, harassment, jailing, physical assault, postmortem abuse, punishment, and sexual assault.