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About Slave PUMS: The Public Use Microada Samples of the Slave Population are a series of five samples taken from the 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Slave Inhabitants.
User's Guide: The 1860 samples include (a) a Flat sample, (b) a Group Quarters sample, where slaves living in large holdings were sampled under different rules, and (c) a Complete Count sample that includes the complete population of slaves in selected southern counties.
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