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Berry Slave Value Database, 10 U.S. States, 1797-1865 (ICPSR 37099)
Released/updated on: 2018-07-03
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Missouri, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina
Time period: 1797-01-01--1865-01-01
This study uses historical records from 36 archives in the United States to analyze 8,437 enslaved people's sale and/or appraisal prices from 1797 to 1865.
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Quantitative Data Coded from the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives, United States, 1936-1938 (ICPSR 36381)
Released/updated on: 2018-05-08
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, District of Columbia, Indiana, United States, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Kansas, Alabama, Florida, New York (state), Arkansas, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Mississippi, Illinois, Texas, Missouri, Louisiana, Ohio, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland
Time period: 1936-01-01--1938-01-01
This project entailed recording and coding information from slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers' Project. Between 1936 and 1938, federal authorities organized teams of interviewers in seventeen states who gathered the recollections of over two thousand former slaves. The typescript of these interviews, running to more than ten thousand pages, was deposited in the Library of Congress and has been available on microfiche for many years. Information on the actions, attitudes, beliefs and experiences of slaves was coded from 2,358 slave narratives.
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Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865 (ICPSR 7421)
Released/updated on: 2006-10-11
Geographic coverage: North Carolina, Mississippi, United States, Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina
Time period: 1775-01-01--1865-01-01
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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Union Army Slave Appraisal Records from Mississippi, 1863-1865 (ICPSR 9427)
Released/updated on: 1992-02-17
Geographic coverage: Mississippi, United States
Time period: 1863-01-01--1865-01-01
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.