Event Type Controlled Vocabulary

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• Violence: Capture

  An event in which an enslaved person is apprehended by some external entity, such as a slave patrol
• Violence: Harassment

  An event in which a an enslaved person is subjected to verbal taunting or abuse
• Violence: Jailing

  An event in which an enslaved person is confined by the state or a municipal authority for some wrongdoing or transgression
• Violence: Medical Experimentation

  An event in which an enslaved person is subject to treatment that has the goal of developing an effective treatment for a medical condition or to further scientific research
• Violence: Perpetrating

  An event in which an enslaved person performs a violent act
• Violence: Physical assault

  An event in which an enslaved person is physically harmed by another person, excluding sexual violence
• Violence: Postmortem abuse

  An event in which the body of a deceased enslaved person is used in ways to which they did not consent, e.g. medical or scientific research, etc.
• Violence: Punishment

  An event in which an enslaved person is punished in a way that does not include physical assault, such as increased labor, withholding of provisions
• Violence: Sexual assault

  An event in which a person subjects an enslaved person to harm that is of a sexual nature, eg. unwanted touching, rape, etc.