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Description & Citation--Study No. 7422

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7422
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07422
 
Title:Slave Hires, 1775-1865
 
Principal Investigator(s):Robert W. Fogel, University of Rochester
 
  Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester
 
Series:Economics of American Negro Slavery Series
 
Funding Agency:National Science Foundation.
 
Bibliographic Citation:Fogel, Robert W., and Stanley L. Engerman. SLAVE HIRES, 1775-1865 [Computer file]. ICPSR07422-v3. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester [producer], 1976. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2006-10-11. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07422
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This study presents data pertaining to slave hiring transactions that occurred between 1775-1865 in eight states of the southern United States: Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi. The data were obtained from probate records on deposit in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Genealogical Society Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Variables document the location of the hiring transaction and the period and rate of hire, as well as the hired slaves' age, sex, occupational skills, and condition of health. A related study is SLAVE SALES AND APPRAISALS, 1775-1865 (ICPSR 7421), also prepared by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.
 
Subject Term(s):African Americans, Antebellum South (USA), eighteenth century, history, nineteenth century, slave hires, slave labor, slave ownership, slave populations, slavery, Southern United States
 
Geographic Coverage:Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, United States, Virginia
 
Time Period:1775 - 1865
 
Universe:Slave hires in the southern United States (Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi) between 1775-1865.
 
Data Type:administrative records data
 
Data Collection Notes:Variable 5, recording "Year in which Hiring Transaction Occurred", has values ranging from 1785 to 1865, and value 0 for "year unknown".
 

Methodology

Sample:Nonrandom convenience sample.
 
Data Source:Probate records for the southern states, on deposit in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Genealogical Society Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-05-11
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-10-11.
 
  2006-10-11 - ICPSR has added value labels found in the original documentation from the principal investigators to the setup and data files. A PDF codebook was added and the metadata record was revised.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Slave Hires, 1775-1865
 

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