A public use microdata sample of the 1860 census of slave inhabitants

Historical Methods

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-26

  Alexander, J Trent ^a   Digman, Jason Carl ^a   Condon, Sean ^b   Hacker, J David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ADRIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data set; Demography; Slaveholding; Slavery

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; SLAVE; SOCIAL HISTORY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038109763     PISSN: 01615440     EISSN: 19401906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01615440309601211     Document Type: Article

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