NMANUMIT

Number manumitted from holding

Availability

1850: Both samples

1860: All three samples

Universe

All persons.

Description

NMANUMTS indicates the number of slaves who were manumittetd from the holding in the 12 months prior to the census..

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

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