Centre County Term Slave Registry

A Just and True Return will aggregate and contextualize slave registries from the following twelve counties: Adams, Allegheny, Bedford, Bucks, Centre, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, Lancaster, Washington, and Westmoreland.

The Centre County records contain only fifteen registrations, the fewest of any extant county slave registry in Pennsylvania. Here is the data.

Elizabeth Smith registered Edgar as a term slave despite the fact that his mother, Julian, was a term slave herself rather than a slave for life.