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Description & Citation--Study No. 9427

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:9427
 
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. doi:10.3886/ICPSR09427
 

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
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Union Army Slave Appraisal Records from Mississippi, 1863-1865
 

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