Description of Primary Enslaved Participant

The following properties are intended to capture information about enslaved participants within the context of a specific event (for example, a person's freedom status or age at the time of the event being described). For characteristics that describe people but are not event-dependent (such as birth date or familial relationships), see Person Record Properties.

Primary Participant

• Term: otgevents:principal

• Equivalent property: bio:principal

• Data type: Omeka S Item or Text

• Description: The primary person who is involved in the event.

• Usage: Link to the Person record for the primary enslaved participant. If no record exists, use the text input to specify participants.

• Input: Single

Primary Participant Description

• Term: otgevents:primaryParticipantDescription

• Equivalent property:

• Data type: Text

• Description: A description of the primary participant in the event.

• Usage: Verbatim description from the archival source that describes the physical characteristics of the person in any way.

• Input: Multiple

• Rationale: This property is included in lieu of having a property in the Person record that designates race. It is a recognition that phenotypic descriptions change over time and that different archival materials may describe a person in vastly different ways.

Freedom Status

• Term: otgevents:freedomStatus

• Equivalent property:

• Data type: Custom Vocabulary: Freedom Status

• Description: An indication of the freedom status of the primary participant in the event at the time of the event.

• Usage: Select from a controlled vocabulary to indicate the enslavement status of the primary participant at the time of the event.

• Input: Single

Enslaver

• Term: otgevents:enslaver

• Equivalent property:

• Data type: Omeka S Item or Text or URI

• Description: The person or institution responsible for holding in slavery the primary particpant in the event.

• Usage: Omeka S Item or URI are preferred data types.

• Input: Multiple

Age

• Term: otgevents:age

• Equivalent property: bio:age

• Data type: Integer or Text

• Description: The age of the primary participant at the time of the event.

• Usage:

• Input: Single