Description & Citation--Study No. 9427 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9427 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09427 |
| Title: | Union Army Slave Appraisal Records from Mississippi, 1863-1865 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Robert A. Margo |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Margo, Robert A. UNION ARMY SLAVE APPRAISAL RECORDS FROM MISSISSIPPI, 1863-1865 [Computer file]. Cambridge, MA: Robert A. Margo, Harvard University [producer], 1979. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1991. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection, designed to study conditions of slave life, contains information on contrabands and runaways. Information is provided regarding the county where the appraisal was conducted, date of appraisal, name, age, eye and face color, weight, height, sex, and appraised value of the slave in dollars. |
| Subject Term(s): | historical data, nineteenth century, slave appraisals, slavery, slaves, Union Army |
| Geographic Coverage: | Mississippi, United States |
| Time Period: | 1863 - 1865 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | 1979 |
| Universe: | All slaves who appeared in a set of appraisal records for Civil War Mississippi. |
| Data Type: | administrative records data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The data contain alphabetic codes. |
Methodology | |
| Data Source: | Union Army Slave Appraisal Records from Mississippi |
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: | 1991-10-23 |
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