Censuses of the Enslaved Population: 1850 and 1860
IPUMS provides full count datasets of the enslaved population of the United States in 1850 and 1860. The underlying data were provided by Ancestry.com and FamilySearch and were processed and encoded by IPUMS.
Data description. An overview of how the data were collected and processed.
Variables. Variable descriptions, codes, and availability.
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Funding
Development of these data was funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant R01HD082120.
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For questions about the IPUMS enslaved population data, contact ipums@umn.edu.
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