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Stapp, Carol Buchalter. "Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An Analysis of Probate Records," George Washington University, Feb. 1990.
Scholars regard probate records as a valuable primary source for constituencies for whom other documentation-written and artifactual-scarce. A small-scale but intensive analysis of the probate records of black Bostonians in the 1840s indicates that this course can promote understanding of a previously assumed inarticulate population. Confirmed by other public records (federal censuses, city directories, and the Black Abolitionist Papers), twenty-three probate packets-consisting of wills, household inventories, and/or administrative accounts-provide evidence about Afro-American diversity in commonality, intraracial interaction, family security, communal obligation, working women, consumerism, and home ownership. Moveover, when studied intimately, probate records reveal themselves to be powerful visual artifacts infused with human narrative.
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