Finding the Names — Volume One, Installment 34: New Orleans Inward Manifests, 1828 (Roll 5, Images 241–360) — FREE

Installment 34 of Finding the Names — Volume One: The Ship Manifests. The third installment of Roll 5 — the 1828 manifests.

467 more entries transcribed name by name from the original New Orleans inward slave manifests — Roll 5, images 241–360, National Archives Microfilm Publication M1895, Records of the U.S. Customs Service (Record Group 36). The series now holds 18,094 entries.

Every entry gives the person's name exactly as the clerk wrote it (or records honestly that no name survives), with sex, age, height, the clerk's class/colour column, the shipper or owner, the vessel, the master, the ports, and the date — plus the inspectors' endorsements, where the human stories live:

• "Dead." — entry No. 34 on the Brig Dillon's list has no name at all; in the name column the clerk wrote only that word, beside "her Infant" under Membey Wilson, 19. The inspector's endorsement confirms: her infant died on the passage.

• General Wade Hampton's 52 — before they could sail from Charleston, a notary certified that none of them had been "directly or indirectly concerned or implicated in the Insurrection of 1822."

• The Lafayette's fifty — her Norfolk permission says fifty people; the sheets across two installments total exactly fifty.

• "Except two deaths" — the Brig United States' master swore nothing had changed on his voyage except two deaths. The two who died are named nowhere.

• James Stone, the valet sent home — he had ridden to Maryland "on a visit with friends"; the clerk struck out "sold" and wrote that he was being returned to his owner.

Nine entries have no name — unnamed infants, and one described person whose name the clerk never wrote. Where the papers disagree, both readings are printed. Nothing is guessed.

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The frontispiece is Prince Demah's Portrait of William Duguid (1773) — art by an enslaved artist (Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0).

Transcribed by hand from the National Archives' own scans. No index, database, or published book was copied. A companion name-list CSV for this installment, and the free guide 'Finding the Names: A Free Guide to the Public Records of America's Slave Trade,' are in our store; the Complete Set download holds the guide and every installment so far in one file.