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Column Name: spop Span: 1790-1860 Units: Persons Format: Integer  The total slave population records the number of slaves (men, women, and children) as of the first Monday in August. Slaves were enumerated in the census district in which they normally resided, even if temporarily absent. The person in whose family or on whose plantation the slave was employed was considered the owner. Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source:  The total slave population records the number of slaves (men, women, and children) as of June 1. Slaves were enumerated in the census district in which they normally resided, even if temporarily absent. The person in whose family or on whose plantation the slave was employed was considered the owner. Source (where directly obtained): Haines, Michael R., and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Historical, Demographic, Economic, and Social Data: The United States, 1790-2000, Database 2896. Hamilton, NY: Colgate University/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producers], 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu Original Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census. 200 Years of Census Taking: Population and Housing Questions, 1790-1990. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989. |
