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 nègres de champ (chases runaway slaves) 30 watchman, guardian, gardien, velador. FISHING AND HUNTING 31 fisherman, pescador, pêcheur 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, maçon, 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, couturière 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 levée worker 133 daily worker, à la journée 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 VIA: Type: Numeric Width: 2 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. COMMENTSType: Character Width: 254 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. 24