Event Type Controlled Vocabulary

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• 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
• Commercial transaction: Appraisal

  An event in which an enslaved person is reviewed and assigned a monetary value, often in anticipation of sale.
• Commercial transaction: Enslaved hire

  An event in which an enslaved person is hired out to an individual other than their primary enslaver for a period of time
• Commercial transaction: Enslaved loan

  An event in which an enslaved person is loaned to an individual other than their primary enslaver for a period of time (without monetary compensation to the primary enslaver)
• Commercial transaction: Services

  An event in which an enslaved person is buying or selling of services (laundry, mending, blacksmithing, midwifery)
• Commercial transaction: Small goods

  An event in which an enslaved person is buying or selling small goods (crafts, foodstuffs, etc.)
• Communication

  An event in which an enslaved person imparts or exchanges information with another person.
• Communication: Autobiography

  An instance in which an enslaved person relates or writes their life story
• Communication: Correspondence

  An event in which an enslaved person receives or sends a note or letter.
• Communication: Testimony

  An instance in which an enslaved person relates or writes an account of an event or circumstances
• Education

  An event in which an enslaved person is being educated
• Education: Teaching

  An event in which an enslaved person is teaching someone else
• Freedom status transaction

  An event in which an enslaved person is part of a transaction that changes their status or ownership
• Freedom status transaction: Dispute

  An event in which there is a dispute over an enslaved person’s freedom status
• Freedom status transaction: Emancipation

  An event in which an enslaved person is freed by an order of a state
• Freedom status transaction: Enslavement

  An event in which a person’s status changes from free to enslaved
• Freedom status transaction: Exchange

  An event in which an enslaved person is exchanged for another enslaved person or goods by a free person who has control over them
• Freedom status transaction: Manumission

  An event in which an enslaved person is freed by an owner(s)
• Freedom status transaction: Purchase [Deprecated]

  An event in which an enslaved person is purchased by a free person or an organization
• Freedom status transaction: Sale

  An event in which an enslaved person is sold by their owner(s)
• Freedom status transaction: Transfer

  An event in which ownership or control of an enslaved person is transferred from one entity to another
• Health

  An event in which an enslaved person is ill or undergoes a major bodily issue, sometimes requiring attendance from a healthcare provider
• Health: Childbirth

  An event in which a woman gives birth to a child
• Health: Illness

  An event in which an enslaved person experiences sickness or disease
• Health: Injury

  An event in which an enslaved person experiences a physical trauma to the body through accident, assault, or other causes