NFUGITVS

Number of fugitives from holding

Availability

1850: Both samples
1860: All three samples

Universe

All persons.

Description

NFUGITVS indicates the number of slaves who escaped from the holding in the 12 months prior to the census and had not been returned to their owners.

NFUGITVS is a holding-level variable and does not indicate the individual characteristics of the escaped slave. Users interested in the individual characteristics of escaped slaves (age, sex, color, etc.) should use the slave-level variable FUGITIVE.

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