Description & Citation--Study No. 7421 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 7421 |
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Persistent URL:
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07421 |
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| | | Title: | Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865 |
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| | | Principal Investigator(s): | Robert W. Fogel, University of Rochester |
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| Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester |
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| | | Series: | Economics of American Negro Slavery Series |
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| | | Funding Agency: | National Science Foundation |
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| | | Bibliographic Citation: | Fogel, Robert W., and Stanley L. Engerman. SLAVE SALES AND APPRAISALS, 1775-1865 [Computer file]. ICPSR07421-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/ICPSR07421 |
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| | | | Summary: | This study presents data pertaining to slave sales and
appraisals that took place from 1775 to 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 sale locations and the appraised
and sale values of the slaves, as well as the slaves' age, sex,
occupational skills, and condition of health. A related study is SLAVE
HIRES, 1775-1865 (ICPSR 7422), also prepared by Robert W. Fogel and
Stanley L. Engerman. |
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| | | Subject Term(s): | African Americans, Antebellum South (USA), eighteenth century, history, nineteenth century, slave appraisals, slave ownership, slave populations, slave sales, slavery, Southern United States |
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| | | Geographic Coverage: | Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, United States, Virginia |
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| | | Time Period: | 1775 - 1865 |
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| | | Universe: | Slave sales and appraisals in the southern United States
(Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana,
Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi) between 1775-1865. |
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| | | Data Type: | administrative records data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | Variable 5, recording "Year in which Entry Occurred,"
has values ranging from 1742 to 1868. |
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| | | | Sample: | Nonrandom, convenience sample. |
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| | | Data Source: | probate records for the southern United States, on
deposit in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Genealogical Society Library, Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| | | | 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. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 1984-07-02 |
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| | | Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-10-11. |
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| 2006-10-11 - ICPSR has added value labels found in
the original documentation from the principal investigators to the
setup and data files. Variables V5, V7, V10, V12, V13, and V15 were
reformatted as numeric variables. A PDF codebook was added and the
metadata record was revised. |
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| 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. |
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| | | Dataset(s): | - DS1: Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865
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