Dataset: Philadelphia Black People 1790 Census
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The Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD)
Discipline
Subject
African-American
Philadephia
Early America
Digital Humanities
Labor History
Social History
United States History
Philadephia
Early America
Digital Humanities
Labor History
Social History
United States History
Region
(39.952335, -75.16378900000001)
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Grant number
Date issued
2014-01-01
Distributor
Scholarly Commons, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
Related resources
Smith, Billy G. The “Lower Sort” Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800 (http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100933110). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990--and many more.
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Abstract
The data is all the black householders recorded on the 1790 federal census in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
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Comments
To help explain the data, there are two separate files, a Codebook and Occupational Codes for men and women.