History 454/654Fall, 1999
Code book for 5,000 slave sales in New Orleans, 1800-1862
(data courtesy of ICPSR)
Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman, Principal Investigators
\par V47 sequence number
\par V1 constant
\par V2 notary public
\par V3 month
\par V4 year
\par V5 invoice code
\par V6 sellers initials
\par V7 origin of seller
\par Value Label
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\par 1 New Orleans
\par 2 Other Louisiana
\par 3 Out of State
\par 4 Out of U. S.
\par 9 Missing Data
\par V8 seller abbrev
\par V9 buyers initials
\par V10 orign of buyer
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\par Value Label
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\par 1 New Orleans
\par 2 Other Louisiana
\par 3 Out of State
\par 4 Out of U.S.
\par 9 Missing Data
\par V11 buyer abbrev
\par V12 number of slaves on invoice
\par V13 number of price quotes
\par V14 PRICE in current dollars
\par V15 sex
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\par Value Label
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\par 1 Male
\par 2 female
\par 9 Gender not recorded
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\par V16 age with one decimal
\par V17 skin color
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\par Value Label
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\par 1 Negro
\par 2 Griff
\par 3 Yellow
\par 4 Mulatto
\par 5 Copper
\par 6 Black
\par 7 Light
\par 8 Brown
\par 9 Creole
\par 10 Quadroon
\par 11 Dark
\par 12 American Negro
\par 13 African Negro
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\par V18 number of children
\par V19 sex of child 1
\par V20 age of child 1
\par V21 sex of child 2
\par V22 age of child 2
\par V23 sex of child 3
\par V24 age of child 3
\par V25 sex of child 4
\par V26 age of child 4
\par V27 sex of child 5
\par V28 age of child 5
\par V29 sex of child 6
\par V30 age of child 6
\par V31 sex of child 7
\par V32 age of child 7
\par V33 sex of child 8
\par V34 age of child 8
\par V35 family relation code
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\par Value Label
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\par 1 no family relation
\par 2 husband and wife
\par 3 husband, wife and 1-3 children
\par 4 siblings
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\par V36 terms of sale
\par
\par Value Label
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\par 1 cash
\par 2 credit
\par 9 terms unknown
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\par V37 amount of down payment
\par V38 months
\par V39 interest rate
\par V40 guarantee
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\par Value Label
\par
\par 1 slave guaranteed
\par 2 slave not guaranteed
\par
\par V41 reason for no guarantee
\par
\par Value Label
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\par 1 asthma
\par 2 runaway history
\par 3 hearing
\par 4 hides out
\par 5 bad eyesight
\par 6 rheumatism
\par 7 maladies
\par 8 frostbitten foot
\par 9 alcoholic
\par 10 sickly
\par 11 swollen limbs
\par 12 ruptured
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\par V42 occupation code
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\par Value Label
\par
\par 0 no occupation given
\par 1 seamstress
\par 2 cook
\par 3 sailmaker
\par 4 blacksmith
\par 5 carpenter
\par 6 gardener
\par 7 house servant
\par 8 wood chopper
\par 9 field hand
\par 10 cooper
\par 11 hair dresser
\par 12 bricklayer
\par 14 interpretor
\par 15 butcher
\par 16 ploughman
\par 17 laborer
\par 26 coachman
\par V43 out of state code 47
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\par Value Label
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\par 1 no information
\par 5 seller not from LA
\par 7 African import
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\par V44 importation code
\par V45 previous transaction code
\par V46 index of individ price
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\par Value Label
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\par 1 price for single slave
\par 2 price for multiple slaves