slavery in pennsylvania

Dauphin County index page

The slaveholder and slave listings, below, represent the updated pages that began the Afrolumens Project in 1997.  First published on GeoCities, "Slavery in Pennsylvania" consisted of only a few pages of transcribed data from a college research paper.

Slaves being paraded in a coffle through the streets of Washington, DC.  Detail from a print in the Library of Congress.

Dauphin County enslavement data

slaves listed by slaveholder's surname

• Dauphin County Slaveholders A-B
• Dauphin County Slaveholders C
• Dauphin County Slaveholders D-F
• Dauphin County Slaveholders G-J
• Dauphin County Slaveholders K-N
• Dauphin County Slaveholders P-R
• Dauphin County Slaveholders S-Y

misc. Dauphin County enslavement data

• 1790 Census of Dauphin County Slaveowners
  Names of slaveholders and the number of slaves enumerated during the 1790 federal census. Excluding the part of the county which is now Lebanon County.
• 1798 Direct Tax List of Slaveholders
  Slaveholders and number of taxable slaves, by township and town.
• Dauphin County Slaves Listed in the 1800 Septennial Census
  Names of slaves found in the Septennial Census for Dauphin County. This includes the area which is now Lebanon County. Also included is a fragment of the 1807 Septennial Census.
• Known surnames of slaves--Dauphin County
  Those few slaves for whom we know their surnames are listed here along with the slaveholder last associated with them.
• Dauphin County Miscellaneous Slave Data
  Data which does not fit into the format of other pages on this Web site, generally without named slaveholders.  Includes anonymous slave sale advertisements.

other Dauphin County pages

• Slave Burials at Hanover Cemetery
• Slave Burials at Wenrich's Cemetery
• Paxton Presbyterian Cemetery
• Dauphin County This-N-That