North American Slave Narratives Documenting Individual Violent Resistance

Incidents of individual violent resistance extracted from the North American Slave Narratives collection. The data was compiled by Robert Reece and is hosted by the Texas Data Repository. The record was last updated on October 15, 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze patterns of individual resistance based on narrative incidents.
• Study the language and framing of violence within historical slave narratives.
• Train NLP models for entity or event extraction from historical primary sources.

Strengths

• Data is derived from the authoritative North American Slave Narratives collection hosted by Documenting the American South at UNC-Chapel Hill.
• Record metadata shows a specific last update date of 2025-10-15.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

North American Slave Narratives hosted by Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

Collection Method

Incidents were drawn from the narrative collection; the specific extraction method is not detailed.

Time Range

Likely covers the period of North American slavery, but specific temporal coverage is not stated.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-15 04:05:26; freshness should be verified.

Geography

North America, with a focus on the American South.