Runaway Advertisements in Eigtheenth-Century Copenhagen (1783–1793)
- Runaway Advertisements in Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen
The WORCK Datasets contain bilingual source documents (original wording with modern English translation) dealing with labour and coercion, interactive maps locating sites of labour coercion of all types, and lists and illustrations of annotation and text mining analyses.
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Prosecution of a murderous female slave, Mukden (Qing China), 1796
*The Chinese judiciary* was organized along a vertical chain of transmission. Judicial cases were investigated at the local level and, depending on their gravity, transmitted upward to the prefecture, the province, then to the Board of...
Interrogation of a runaway convict, Copenhagen 1776
From 1741 to about 1860 a prison known in its time as “Slaveriet [1]”, translating simply to /The Slavery/, existed in Northern Copenhagen. /The Slavery/ was one of many similar extramural convict institutions littering early modern Scandinavia...
Searching for a Wet Nurse: Prato, 1395–98
The process of entering a work relationship is very complex both on an individual and on a structural level. There are those
Duties and Rights of Landowners and Tenants in a Late Roman Law
In the Later Roman Empire (3rd to 6th centuries CE) rural tenancy became much more regulated than previously. During the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, this social relationship was understood as a contract between landowner and tenant,...
Searching for a Wet Nurse. Three Cases of Wet Nurse Mediation Based on the Datini Correspondence. Prato, 1395–98
This dataset consists of three cases of wet nurse mediation in late medieval Prato. It presents excerpts from the private letter correspondence of the merchant couple Margherita and Francesco Datini dealing with (potential) work arrangements for...
Datini Map
- Searching for a Wet Nurse. Three Cases of Wet Nurse Mediation Based on the Datini Correspondence. Prato, 1395–98
Mediation of Wet Nurses: Case 03
- Searching for a Wet Nurse. Three Cases of Wet Nurse Mediation Based on the Datini Correspondence. Prato, 1395–98
Mediation of Wet Nurses: Case 02
- Searching for a Wet Nurse. Three Cases of Wet Nurse Mediation Based on the Datini Correspondence. Prato, 1395–98