Description & Citation--Study No. 7422 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 7422 |
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Persistent URL:
| http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07422 |
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| | | Title: | Slave Hires, 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 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 |
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| | | | 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. |
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| | | 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 |
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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 hires 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 Hiring
Transaction Occurred", has values ranging from 1785 to 1865, and value
0 for "year unknown". |
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| | | | Sample: | Nonrandom convenience sample. |
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| | | 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. |
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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: | 1984-05-11 |
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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. 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 Hires, 1775-1865
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