Description & Citation--Study No. 7422

• Bibliographic Description
• Scope of Study
• Methodology
• Access and Availability

Bibliographic Description

07422

Slave Hires, 1775-1865

Fogel, Robert W., University of Rochester

Engerman, Stanley L., University of Rochester

National Science Foundation

Fogel, Robert W., and Stanley L. Engerman. SLAVE HIRES, 1775-1865. 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.v3

Economics of American Negro Slavery Series

Scope of Study

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.

African Americans, Antebellum South (USA), eighteenth century, history, nineteenth century, slave hires, slave labor, slave ownership, slave populations, slavery, Southern United States

Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, United States, Virginia

• 1775--1865

Slave hires in the southern United States (Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi) between 1775-1865.

administrative records data

Variable 5, recording "Year in which Hiring Transaction Occurred", has values ranging from 1785 to 1865, and value 0 for "year unknown".

Methodology

Nonrandom convenience sample.

You can find more information via the sample characteristics utility.

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.

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Created online analysis version with question text.

Access and Availability

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

1984-05-11

• 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.