St. Mary's Seminary Enslaved Individuals from Membership Lists, 1796-1833

Baltimore's St. Mary’s Seminary Chapel, established in 1808, served a community including French-speaking Haitian refugees from 1796 to 1833. This dataset documents individuals identified as enslaved from the seminary's Confraternity Membership and Easter Duty lists. The data was contributed by Tricia Pyne to the Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation Dataverse and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Historical demographic analysis based on membership and duty lists.
• Genealogical research on enslaved individuals associated with a specific religious institution.
• Studying the intersection of religious communities and slavery in early American history.
• Analyzing the composition of a refugee community (Haitian, French-speaking) within a historical dataset.

Strengths

• Focuses on a specific, historically significant institution established in 1791.
• Documents a defined temporal scope for the Haitian refugee ministry (1796-1833).
• Originates from a dedicated preservation dataverse for slavery studies.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for quantitative analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely extracted and compiled from historical Confraternity Membership and Easter Duty lists.

Time Range

Covers the period of the Haitian refugee ministry, 1796-1833, within the seminary's operation from 1791-1969.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 18:50:32; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Seton Hill neighborhood, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA.