CODES FOR SLAVE DATABASE

DOCDATE Type: Date Width: 8

Date of document or file.
Numeric date format: 17890714

YEAR Type: Numeric Width: 4

Year of DOCDATE.

DOCNO Type: Character Width: 6

Document number, from document.

NOTARY Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Name of notary and other retrieval information.

CODER Type: Numeric Width: 2

01 = Gwendolyn Hall
02 = Ulysses Ricard
03 = Philip McLeod
04 = Mabel Macias
05 = Osvaldo Ortega
06 = Gregory Osborne
09 = Peter Caron

DATEINV Type: Date Width: 8

Date of inventory.
Date format.

DATESALE Type: Date Width: 8

Date of sale.
Date format.

DEPOT Type: Numeric Width: 2

Depository in which this document is housed.

0 = housed in parish courthouses.

40 = Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain.
41 = Archives Coloniales de France, Aix-en-Provence, France.
42 = Louisiana Historical Center, New Orleans.
43 = Louisiana Historical Quarterly.
44 = New Orleans Public Library
45 = Parsons Collection/Natchez Trace Collection, University of Texas, Austin.
46 = Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge
47 = Spanish West Florida Papers. Originals in East Baton Rouge courthouse, well
indexed, good translations published in English, at Louisiana Historical Center and
Tulane University.
48 = Hill Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
50 = Patrick Manning, Sacramental Records, Archives of Archdiocese of New
Orleans.
51 = Patrick Manning, Sacramental Records, Point Coupee Parish, Catholic Life
Center, Baton Rouge.
52 = Patrick Manning, Sacramental Records at Catholic Church in Opelousas, LA.
53 = Patrick Manning,Sacramental Records, Ascension Parish, Catholic Life
Center, Baton Rouge.
54 = Fondos de las Floridas, Havana, microfilms at Historic New Orleans Collection.
55 = Gwendolyn Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana.
56 = Emily Clark, Ursuline Convent Archives, New Orleans.
57 = Eltis et al, the Atlantic Slave Trade Database: a Compact Disk Publication.
58 = Glenn Conrad, Attakapas County Records.

LOCATION Type: Numeric Width: 2

Standardized location, accounting for parish and post
1 St. Bernard
2 Plaquemines
3 Orleans (including Chapitoulas).
[Jefferson 1825]
4 Lafourche. [Terrebonne 1822]
5 Assumption
6 St. Charles (old German Coast)
7 St. John the Baptist (new German Coast)
8 St. James (including Acadians)
9 Ascension (including Acadians)
11 Iberville
12 St. Martin (Attakapas Post). [St. Mary 1811,
Lafayette 1823, Vermillion 1844, Iberia 1868]
13 St. Mary (1811)
14 St. Landry (Opelousas Post). [Calcasieu
1840, Cameron 1870, Acadia 1886, Evangeline
1908, Allen 1910, Jefferson Davis 1912,
Beaureguard 1912]
15 Pointe Coupee
16 Avoyelles
17 West Baton Rouge
20 Natchitoches. [Claiborne 1828, Caddo 1838,
Bossier 1843, DeSoto 1843, Sabine 1843,
Bienville 1848, Red River 1871, Webster 1871]
21 Rapides. [Brant, Vernon 1871]
23 Catahoula (1808)
24 Ouachita. [Union 1839, Morehouse 1844,
Jackson 1845, Richland 1868, Lincoln 1873,
West Carroll 1877]
25 East Baton Rouge. Includes Spanish West Florida Papers
26 Feliciana. Includes Spanish West Florida Papers. Separated into East Feliciana
and West Feliciana in 1824.
27 Manchak. Spanish West Florida Papers
28 St. Tammany. Included what is now Washington Parish(1819)and Tangipahoa
Parish(1869).
29 St. Helena. Includes Spanish West Florida papers.
30 Mobile (Alabama)
31 Pensacola (Fla.)
32 Natchez (Miss)
33 Arkansas
34 Illinois
35 Concordia
36 Red River
47 Mississippi

DOCTYPE Type: Numeric Width: 2

Type of document.
01 = estate inventory
02 = estate sale
07 = sale which does not involve probate
08 = criminal litigation
09 = other litigation
10 = mortgage
11 = marriage contract
 12 = will
13 = seizure for debt
14 = confiscation in criminal proceedings
15 = reports of a runaway
18 = miscellaneous
22 = list, as in census or taxation list.
24 = testimony of slaves
25 = Atlantic slave trade

MAROON Numeric Width: 1

Any documents involving maroons, including reports of runaways,

interrogation of captured runaways, and testimony by slaves about runaways.
1 = yes.

REVOLTSType: numeric Width: 1

This slave was involved in a conspiracy or a revolt against slavery.

LANGUAGE Type: numeric Width: 2

Language of this record.
1 French
2 Spanish
3 English

AFLANG:Type: numeric Width: 2

Language group of Africans.
1 West Atlantic
2 Mande
3 Gur
4 Kwa
5 Gbe(Fon/Arada/Aja/Mina)
6 Adamawa-Eastern
7 Afro-Asiatic
8 Central Sudanic
9 Unidentified
12 Benue-Congo
14 typonym, language group unclear

LINGUISTIC Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is this record of linguistic interest?
1 = yes.

FREE Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is there a free person of African descent involved in this
document?
1 = yes.

ESTATEFREEType: Numeric Width: 1

Is this the inventory or sale of an estate of a free person of African descent?
1 = yes.

ESTATE_OF Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Last name of deceased. For probate documents.
FIRSTNAME Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20
First name of deceased. For probate documents.

ESTATE Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 17

Distinct estate number for each estate inventory or estate sale (DOCTYPE = 01 or
02); or sale of an entire estate including all its slaves = (some doctype 7).

For example, "03-S-XXX-123-1799" means an estate in Orleans Parish during the

Spanish period containing 123 slaves and inventoried in 1799. XXX represents a
unique estate number for each location and period (French, Spanish, Early
American). If estate inventories and estate sales are in the same document or the
estate sale takes place shortly after inventory, slaves from these estates were
entered only once with both inventory and sale price listed in one record. These
unique estate numbers are entered for each slave inventoried and/or sold in these
documents.

ESTATEPOP Type: Numeric Width: 3

Number of slaves on the estates when a complete list of slaves was contained in the
document. Estatepop is entered into only one record for each estate.

SELLER Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Last name of seller of slave.

FIRST1 Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

First name of seller of slave.

BUYER Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Last name of buyer of slave.

FIRST2 Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

First name of buyer of slave.

WENT:Type: Numeric Width: 2

Where the slave went when place of residence of buyer was indicated. Same codes as
for STPORT.

NAMEXPLAIN. Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 254

This gives information, including sometimes the meaning of the African names of
slaves. Incompletely coded.

NAME Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 30

Name of slave in this record. Include "dit" --
e.g., "Moussa dit Jacques." African names recorded first.

NAMETYPE Type: Numeric Width: 1

4 = African
7 = Partilly coded, overwhelmingly European
8 = Could be African or European
9 = No name supplied or name is illegible

SEX Type: Numeric Width: 1

Gender of slave in this record.
1 = female
2 = male
9 = sex is unidentified
RACE Type: Numeric Width: 2
Racial designation of slave in this record.
01 = grif (usually means mixed black/Indian)
02 = indian
03 = black
04 = mulatto
05 = quadroon, quarteron
06 = octoroon
07 = metis (white and Indian, indeterminate mixture)
08 = mulatto grif
08 = mulatto rouge
08 = other, including chino
09 = missing

AGE Type: Numeric Width: 4.0

Age of slave in this record, in years, listing one digit past
the decimal.
If a range of years is given, the mean age: e.g., for a slave of 30 to 35 years,
32.5 was entered. For infants, months were round off to nearest tenth of a year.

AGECATN Type: Numeric Width: 1

When only age categories were indicated.

1 unborn
2 nursing
3 infant
4 child
5 young
6 adult
7 old

SKILLS Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 50

Skills and occupations of this slave.
Complete list of skills from document were translated into English and entered. The
original language was preserved when space permitted.

SKILLCAT Type: Numeric Width: 3

Primary occupation or skill of this slave. If the slave is an expert or an
apprentice at any skill, code that skill first and indicate level of competence in
the expert, apprentice or a little fields.
1 = yes.

AGRICULTURE:

1 commander, commandeur, mayoral,

majordomo, Plantation manager, Driver.
2 worker in agriculture: laborer, laboureur, trabajador, de habitation, de place,
obrero field hand, de campo or champs, soil cultivation, plowman, laboureur,
labrador/labradora
3 various skills
6 plowman
11 gardener, jardinier

DOMESTIC SERVICE:

20 wetnurse
21 domestic, house, domestique, servant,
butler, housekeeper, serviente, domestico
22 cook, cuisinier, cocinero
23 laundry, ironing, blanchisseur, repasseur
25 personal servant, maid, criado/criada

27 child care

POLICE AND SECURITY

29 chasseur de n�gres de champ (chases runaway slaves)

30 watchman, guardian, gardien, velador.

FISHING AND HUNTING

31 fisherman, pescador, p�cheur

41 hunter, casador, chasseur

HORSES, CATTLE LEATHER INDUSTRY

42 tanner
43 leather worker, saddler, corroyeur, apuntador
44 shoemaker, cordonnier, zapatero
45 butcher, boucher, carnicero
46 cowboy, vaucher, vaquero.
47 hostler, horse groomer/ horse related
48 jockey

FORESTRY:

51 woodsman, tree feller, bucheur, cortador de lena

53 axeman, hache, hachador
54 miller, molinero, meunier
55 sawyer, long sawyer
56 lumber squarer, cuadrador, equarisseur

LAND TRANSPORT:

61 carter, wagoneer , carretero, charetier

62 coach driver, calesero, chochero, cocher

MARITIME:

63 sailor, marinero, marin, batelier

64 rower, rameur
65 navigator
66 sail maker
67 Ship's pilot
68 Commander or patron of a boat or ship
69 caulker calfate, califat
70 shipbuilder, ship's carpenter
71 sounder

Industry:

75 sugar worker, both field & mill, sucrier

76 sugar refiner, raffinador
77 miner
78 indigo maker, anilero
 MARKETING:

81 seller, marchand, vendeur

82 vegetable seller
83 milk seller
CRAFTS:

90 cotton press operator

91 pitch/tar
92 oven maker
100 ouvrier, implied industrial worker
101 carpenter, charpentier, carpintero
102 mason, ma�on, albanil
103 roofer, cubridor?
105 brick maker, briqueur; lime maker
106 wheel maker
107 cart maker, charron
108 cooper,(BARREL-MAKER) tonolero, tonnelier
109 cabinet maker, menuisier
110 blacksmith, herero, forgeron
111 tinner
112 tool sharpener, puntador
113 locksmith
114 silversmith
115 goldsmith
116 potter
117 peluquero, barber, shaving, wig maker
120 cigar maker, tobacco stemmer
121 tailor, sastre, tailleur
122 seamstress, costurera, couturi�re
123 hat maker, chapelier
125 baker, panador,boulanger
126 confectioner, chocolate maker
127 spinner, fileuse
128 ropemaker
129 maker of fine china (loza)
130 painter, plasterer
132 lev�e worker
133 daily worker, � la journ�e
134 beggar
135 powder works
136 gravedigger, cavador
137 writing, sign name
138 knows music, plays a musical instrument
140 upholsterer, mattress-maker
141 glazer
142 charcoal maker
143 basket maker
144 wood carver, sculptor, engraver, tallista
145 metalworker acerador
146 pick & Shovel (pelle), pioche, azodonero, espiochero
148 interpreter OF languages.
149 executioner
150 innkeeper, hospitality
151 rum-maker, guildivier

HEALTH CARE
 153 surgeon
154 curer, healer, guerriseur
155 midwife, partera, sage femme.
156 nurse
157 hospital worker
158 tooth puller, sacar muellas
159 bleeder

EXPERT Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is this person described as very good at his or
her primary skill?
1 = yes

APPRENTICE Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is this person described as an apprentice or trainee?
1 = yes

ALITTLE Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is this person described as having a little skill
at his or her primary occupation?
1 = yes

SKILL2 Type: Numeric Width: 3

Secondary occupation or skill of this slave.
Same codes as for skillcat; blank if no more
than one is listed.

SKILL3 Type: Numeric Width: 3

Tertiary occupation or skill of this slave.
Same codes as for skillcat; blank if no more
than two are listed.

SKILL4 Type: Numeric Width: 3

Fourth occupation or skill of this slave.
Same codes as for skillcat; blank if no more
than three are listed.

SKILL5 Type: Numeric Width: 3

Fifth occupation or skill of this slave.
Same codes as for skillcat; blank if no more
than four are listed.

CHARACTER Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 30

Character of this slave as described by seller or appraiser.

CHARCAT Type: Numeric Width: 2

Characteristics of this slave, by category.
1 runaway, helps runaways
2 behavior problems, bad character in general,
insubordinate
3 thief, ladron,voleur,
4 strong, good worker, forte, fuerte
5 intelligent, intelligente
6 gambler
7 criminal behavior, in jail, accused of some
serious crime
8 good character, bon sujet, etc.
10 drunkard, boracho, (also 73 under sick).
 13 libertine, libertina, referring mainly to sexual
promiscuity.

CHARCAT2 Type: Numeric Width: 2

Second character characteristic of this slave. Same codes as for charcat. Left
blank if no more than 1.

CHARCAT3Type: Numeric Width: 2

Third character characteristic of this slave. Same codes as for charcat. Left blank
if no more than 2.

SICK Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 30

Illnesses of this slave.
Enter exact statement of illnesses from document.

SICKCAT Type: Numeric Width: 2

Illnesses of this slave.

General:

1 ill;
2 sickly; infirme; enfermo, enfermiso, valetudinario
3 weak; faible
4 incapacitated; incomode; incomodado
5 dropsy; langueur; hyrdropesia, dropsy
of stomach
8 poisoned

Handicaps and Wounds:

11 blind; ciego
12 blind in one eye; borgne; tuerto
13 spot or hardness on eye; cloud on eye
14 poor sight
15 eye disease
16 deaf or hearing problems
17 mute or speech problems.
18 crippled, estropeado, baldado, enfermo de sus miebras.
19 missing fingers, dedo doblado
20 hand crippled; hand sick; one hand smaller than the ther; hand burned;
21 hand missing
22 arm crippled;
23 arm pain;
24 leg amputated;
25 leg crippled;
26 lame; boiteux
27 leg weak;
28 leg pain; sick legs; mal de la rodilla (knee); frostbite on legs; pierna con
granos
29 foot or feet crippled, missing, swollen.
30 foot pain; frostbitten feet
31 humpback; jorobado; back pains
32 broken back
33 ruptured, quebrado.
35 wounded; fistola; scars; scars from being whipped; cortada/cut.
36 toe problems
37 swelling
38 burns
39 broken bones of any type
 40 shoulder problems

Physical Illness:

41 crippled by veins (blood vessels)

42 tooth disease;
43 heart disease; palpitations in chest.
44 pneumonia, lung disease
45 asthma
46 gallstone
47 fevers
48 dysentery
49 nausea
50 fainting; mal de vapores; dizziness
51 trembling, Templor
52 venereal disease; galico; inflamation of testicles
54 incontinence
55 internal pains
56 other internal ailment
57 breast ailment
58 ulcer
59 scrofula; lamparon
60 leg ulcer; llaga on legs
61 arm ulcer
62 rheumatism
63 leprosy; enfermedad de Lazaro 64 worms;
65 Guinea worm;
66 ringworm; teigne
67 other illness;
68 womb; menstrual problems; mal de mere mal de madre.
69 measles, rougeole
70 scurvy; escorbuto, scorbut
71 crabs
72 skin disease, vesie
73 drunk, boracho
74 old, feeble, falls, caduc, mal caduco
76 head aches/ migraines
77 disc problems
78 gout
79 stomach problems
80 smallpox

Mental Illness:

81 insane
82 imbecile
83 nervous crises
84 epilepsy, convulsions, gota coral
85 disoriented, aturdido
86 suicidal

Other:

87 legless
88 drowned
89 shot
90 dying
91 unclear
 92 killed
93 dead
94 coma
95 paralyzed
96 hemorrhoids almorrana
97 albino
98 malnutrition
99 fistulas

SICK2 Type: Numeric Width: 2

A second illness of this slave. Coded same as sickcat.

SICK3 Type: Numeric Width: 2

A third illness of this slave. Coded same as sickcat.

SICK4 Type: Numeric Width: 2

A fourth illness of this slave. Coded same as sickcat.

SPELL Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Exact spelling of African nation or of birthplace of slave if unclear.

BIRTHPL Type: Numeric Width: 3

Birthplace of slave

SAME CODES FOR BIRTHPL, ORDAD, ORMOM, ORIGINMATE,

ORGRANDMA, ORGRANDPA

4 Arkansas
5 Massachusetts
6 Misssissippi
10 Creole Pensacola
11 Louisiana Creole
12 New Orleans Creole
13 Creole Mobile
14 Natchez Creole
15 British Mainland Creole
16 Alabama
17 Florida
18 Georgia
19 Illinois
20 Kentucky
21 Maryland
22 Missouri
23 New York
24 Pennsylvania
25 Tennessee
26 Virginia
27 Carolinas
28 Rhode Island
29 New England
30 Native American
31 Bermuda
32 Curacao
33 Cuba
34 Santo Domingo
35 St Domingue
36 Guadeloupe
37 Martinique
38 Jamaica
39 English
40 Other Caribbean
41 St Vincent
42 Barbados
43 English Islands
44 Portuguese America
45 Mexico
46 Creole d'Amerique
47 South America
48 French Islands
50 Chino
51 Ile de France
52 France
53 Portguese Creole
54 Espanol
55 Pointe Coupee
56 From Ship
58 Opelousas
59 Baton Rouge area
61 Texas
70 Unclear
101 Bamana
102 Diola
103 Manding
104 Moor/Nar
105 Fulbe/Pular
106 Wolof
107 Serer
109 Timbo
111 Soninke
112 Bobo
114 Dan
115 Coast of Senegal
116 Kisi
117 Limba
118 Mende
119 Soso
120 Temne
122 Toma
123 Nalo
124 Biefada
125 Boke
126 Gabu/Cabao
127 Lokko
128 Akwa
129 Bissago
130 Kanga
131 Koranko
132 Mano
133 Vai
134 Kwia
135 Nima
136 Bacoy
137 Cahure
138 Papelaou
139 Barary
140 Coular
141 Mande/Maecaye
142 Kouniaca
143 Noion
144 Corri, Cories
145 Atoyo/Atyo/Auda
146 Gola
147 Bulom
148 Marka
149 Sara
199 Guinea/Guinea Coast
303 Fanti
305 Quiaba
306 Salaga
308 Concha
398 Gold Coast
399 Coromanti
401 Aja/Fon/Arada
404 Konkomba
405 Cotocoli
407 Gwari
408 Hausa
409 Mina
410 Samba
411 Nago/Yoruba
413 Edo
415 Apa
416 Bargu
417 Nupe
419 Adele
420 Birom
421 Mundu/Munga
422 Mambila
424 Daba
425 Nabwa
490 Benin
491 Juda
498 Juda, Port of
501 Igbo
502 Ibibio/Moko
506 Bioko
507 Ekoi
508 Esan/Edoid
512 Calabar
551 Congo
553 Teke
554 Mandongo
556 Louba
557 Dimba
558 Yoco
559 Popma/Pomo
560 Otango, Hotango
561 Ngala
562 Makonde
563 Hyban/Ibani
564 Isoko
565 Ham/Hamba
566 Bamun
567 Bakoko/Bacoro
568 Mayombe
569 Buji
570 Sango
571 Zina
573 Duguri
590 Angola
591 Gabon
598 sold as Congo, Atlantic Slave Trade
599 Coast of Angola
651 Makwa
653 Karanga
654 Malimbo\Limbo
655 Ranga
656 Cenane
695 Mozambique
699 Nation Unidentified
701 Africa
703 Brut
704 Imputed African based on age

BRUT Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is this slave listed as "brut"or "bozal," meaning newly arrived from Africa.
Yes = 1

GROUP Type: Numeric Width: 1

2 = sold or inventoried as an individual

3 = no prices at all
4 = sold or inventoried in a group

INVCUR Type: Character (category) Width: 1

Currency of inventory inventory or sale value.

p = piastre = 1 p
s = peso = 1 p
g = piastre gourde = 1.75 p
f = peso fuerte = 1.75 p
l = livre = 0.2 p
t = livre tournois?
i = pound (livre) of indigo = 1 p
d = U.S. dollar = 1 p
z = unidentified

INVVALUE Type: Numeric Width: 8

Inventory value of an individual slave or group of
slaves.

INVVALP Type: Numeric Width: 8

Inventory value of an individual slave or group of
slaves. This is a common denominator price involving automatic price conversion
formulas calculated by Robert A. Rosenberg, Director of the Edison Papers using the
same price in alternate currencies collected from documents by Gwendolyn M. Hall.
SALECUR Type: Character (category) Width: 1
Currency of sale of an individual slave or group of
slaves. Same as for invcur above.

SALEVALUE Type: Numeric Width: 8

Sale value of an individual slave or group of slaves.

SALEVALP Type: Numeric Width: 8

Sale value of an individual slave or group of slaves.
This is a common denominator price involving automatic price conversion formulas
derived as explained for INVVALP above.

FAMILY_Y_N Type: Numeric Width: 1

Member of a family group = 1

FAMILY Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 50

Describe family of this slave.

CHILDREN Type: Numeric Width: 2

Number of children of this slave. Coded for mother only if both parents are
listed; if father and not mother is listed, coded for father.

MALE Type: Numeric Width: 1

Number of male children of this slave.

FEMALE Type: Numeric Width: 1

Number of female children of this slave.

UNDER5 Type: Numeric Width: 1

Number of children under 5 of this slave.

PREGNANT Type: Numeric Width: 1

Woman is pregnant = 1

MOTHER Type: Numeric Width: 1

Slave's mother is listed in the document.
1 = yes

AGEMOM Type: Numeric Width: 2

Age of mother of this slave, in years.

RACEMOM Type: Numeric Width: 2

Racial designation of mother of this slave.
Use codes in Race field.

INVWMOM Type: Numeric Width: 1

This slave inventoried with his or her mother.
1 = yes

SOLDWMOM Type: Numeric Width: 1

This slave sold with his or her mother.
1 = yes

SPNATMOM Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Exact spelling of African nation of mother.
ORMOM Type: Numeric Width: 3
Birthplace of mother of this slave.
Use codes in birthpl field.

MATE Type: Numeric Width: 1

Mate indicated in the document.
1 = yes

MATENAME Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 30

Name of mate of slave in this record.

AGEMATE Type: Numeric Width: 2

Age in years of mate.

AGECATMATE Type: Character (category) Width: 2

Age of mate, by category.
Use categories given in agecat field.

RACEMATE Type: Numeric Width: 2

Racial designation of mate.
Use codes in race field.

SPELNAMATE Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Exact spelling of mate's nation.

ORIGINMATE Type: Numeric Width: 3

Birthplace of mate.
Use codes in birthpl field.

FATHER Type: Numeric Width: 1

Father of this slave listed in this document.
1 = yes

AGEDAD Type: Numeric Width: 2

Age of father of this slave, in years.

RACEDAD Type: Numeric Width: 2

Racial designation of father of this slave.
Use codes in race field

SPNADAD Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Exact spelling of African nation.

ORDAD Type: Numeric Width: 3

Birthplace of father of this slave.

Use codes in birthpl field.

GRANDCHILD Type: Numeric Width: 2

Number of grandchildren of this slave.

GRANDSONS Type: Numeric Width: 2

Number of grandsons of this slave.

GDAUGHTERS Type: Numeric Width: 2

Number of granddaughters of this slave.

GRANDMA Type: Numeric Width: 1

 Grandmother of this slave is listed in this document.
1 = yes

AGEGRANDMA Type: Numeric Width: 2

Age of grandmother of this slave, in years.
105 SPNAGM Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20
Exact spelling of African nation of grandmother.

106 ORGRANDMA Type: Numeric Width: 3

Birthplace of grandmother of this slave.
Use numeric codes in birthpl field.

107 GRANPA Type: Numeric Width: 1

Grandfather of this slave listed in this document.
1 =yes

108AGEGRANDPA Type: Numeric Width: 2

Age of grandfather of this slave, in years.

110 SPNAGRPA Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Exact spelling of African nation of grandfather.

111 ORGRANDPA Type: Numeric Width: 3

Birthplace of grandfather of this slave.
Use codes in birthpl field.

112 EMANCIP Type: Numeric Width: 1

Is the slave being emancipated?
1 = yes

113 DEAD Type: Numeric Width: 1

Slave listed as dead.
1 = yes

114 RUNAWAY Type: Numeric Width: 1

1 = Slave had actually run away.

2 = Slave had sheltered, hidden, and or traded with a runaway slave or slaves.
3 = Slave testified about runaways but was not a runaway and was not involved, or
accused of being involved with runaways.

115 ENTERPRISE Type: Numeric Width: 3

Dominant enterprise of this property. This field is sparsely coded because of time
pressures.

1 cotton
2 indigo
3 manufacturing
4 mixed farming
5 other rural
6 sugar
7 tobacco
8 timber and firewood
9 household
10 commercial
11 construction
 12 cartage
13 maritime trade
14 lumber mill
15 urban unspecified
16 rice
17 corn
18 rural, unspecified
19 tannery & Leather goods

MARITIME SLAVE TRADE:

CAPTAIN Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Name of Captain of Ship.

SHIP Type: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Name of ship.

ARRIVEDATE Type: Date Width: 8

Date ship arrived in Louisiana.

FROMType: Character (verbatim) Width: 20

Port of embarkation.

STPORT: Type: Numeric Width: 2

Slave trade place of embarkation for slaves who arrived by ship.

Same codes for WENT and VIA.

1 St Bernard
2 Plaquemines
3 Orleans
4 Lafourche
5 Assumption
6 St Charles
7 St John Baptist
8 St James
9 Ascension
11 Iberville
12 St Martin
13 St Mary
14 St Landry
15 Pointe Coupee
16 Avoyelles
17 West Baton Rouge
20 Natchitoches
21 Rapides
23 Catahoula
24 Ouachita
25 East Baton Rouge
26 Feliciana
27 Manshac
28 St Tammany
29 St. Helena
30 Mobile
31 Pensacola
32 Natchez
33 Arkansas
34 Illinois
35 Concordia
36 Red River
38 Virginia
39 Texas
40 Tennessee
41 St. Domingue/Haiti
43 Pennsylvania
45 New York
46 Missouri
47 Mississippi
48 Mexico
49 Maryland
50 Kentucky
51 Jamaica
52 Georgia
53 Cuba
54 Ohio Territory
56 Washington DC
57 from docked ship
58 Providence Isle
59 Dominca
60 Campeche
61 Vera Cruz
62 Havana
63 Mexico City
64 St. Thomas
65 Martinique
66 Guadeloupe
67 Baracoa,Cuba
68 Santo Domingo
69 Apalachicola
70 Florida
71 Charleston
72 Carolina
73 S Carolina
74 N Carolina
75 Philadelphia
76 USA
77 Africa
78 Baltimore
79 Grenada
80 British Mainland
81 Port-au-Prince
82 France
83 Senegal
84 Guinea-Pt. La Cayanna
85 Bight of Benin
86 W.Central Africa
87 Gold Coast
88 Isles de France
89 Santiago de Cuba
90 Norfolk
92 French Islands
93 Alabama
94 New Jersey
95 Delaware

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Where the slave came from when different from birthpl. Eg., Africans who spent time
in various Caribbean countries before being brought to Louisiana. Same codes as
for STPORT.

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An extremely important field giving details which were too long and varied to be
coded.

RECODED FIELDS IN SPSS

The following fields have been recoded for facility in making calculations:

I.YEARS RECODED INTO TIME PERIOD:

A) DECADE. These time periods are named by the first year in the decade
and end with the last year in the decade, with two exceptions:
5. 1720s includes 1719.
2. 1810 includes 1820.
B)FIVEYR. YEARS ARE CLUSTERED INTO FIVE-YEAR PERIODS.
C) EPOCH. THIS FIELD REPRESENTS TIME PERIODS OF EFFECTIVE OCCUPATION BY
THE THREE MAJOR POWERS:
1. French (1719-1769).
2. Spanish (1770-1803).
3. Early American (1804-1820).
II. DOCTYPES RECODED INTO ESTATES:
A) ESTATE INVENTORIES AND SALES, PROBATE DOCUMENTS.
B) SALES NOT INVOLVING PROBATE.
C) OTHERS. ALL OTHER TYPE DOCUMENTS.
III. AGE INFORMATION RECORDED AS:
B) AGEGROUP. NUMERIC AGES RECORDED INTO FIVE YEARS.
C) AGECSPAN. NUMERIC AGES RECORDED INTO CHILD, YOUNG/ADULT, AND OLD IN
ACCORDANCE WITH SPANISH AGE GROUP DEFINITIONS.
D) AGESPAN. NUMERIC AGES RECODED INTO CHILD (<15), ADULT (15-49) AND OLD
(50+) IN ACCORDANCE WITH SPANISH AGE GROUP CATEGORIES.
IV. LOCATION.
A)ORLEANS: RECODED INTO ORLEANS OR ALL OTHER LOCATIONS.
B)DISTRICT: RECODED INTO ORLEANS, RURAL LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER, SOUTHWEST,
NATCHITOCHES, AND ALL OTHER LOCATIONS.
V. BIRTHPLACES.
A) ORIGIN: RECODED INTO CREOLE OF LOUSIANA, AFRICAN, CARIBBEAN, ANGLO,
INDIAN, AND OTHER.
B)AFREGION: RECODED INTO SEVEN AFRICAN REGIONS OF ORIGIN AND AFRICANS OF
UNIDENTIFIED REGIONS.
C)AFETH: RECODED INTO SPECIFIC AFRICAN ETHNICITES FROM SEVEN AFRICAN REGIONS
OF ORIGIN, ETHNICITIES WHOSE REGIONS OF ORIGIN ARE UNIDENTIFIED, AFRICANS WHOSE
AFRICAN REGION ONLY ARE KNOWN, AND SLAVES DESCRIBED AS AFRICANS WITH NO FURTHER
INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR ORIGINS.
D)AFREQ: THE EIGHTEEN MOST FREQUENT ETHNICITIES FOUND IN THE DATABASE.
VI.SKILLGP, SKILLGP1, SKILLGP2 ,SKILLGP2, SKILLGP3, SKILLGP4, SKILLGP5.
PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND OTHER SKILLS GROUPED INTO THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
Agriculture; domestic; security; fishing/hunting; horse/cattle/leather/meat;
forestry/lumber; land transport; maritime/water transport; industry; marketing;
crafts; health care.
VII.SLAVES ARRIVING BY SEA:
FIRST, SELECT Slavetra=1
Then in Maritime field, choose as follows:
A)Atlantic Slave Trade = 1. (Can also be selected as doctype 25)
 B) Transshipment Trade = 0.
TO EXCLUDE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE RECORDS IN CALCULATIONS, SELECT DOCTYPE<25.

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