[ICPSR] Inform Your Juneteenth 2021 Celebration With Data Resources From ICPSR

[Dory Knight-Ingram]

Explore some of the data resources that preserve the history and
experiences of former slaves and their descendants.
[image: Juneteenth - Celebrate Freedom - June 1: A Data Resource Guide From
ICPSR]
Great data resources from ICPSR to inform your Juneteenth 2021 celebration!

Saturday, June 19, 2021, marks 156 years since, “two and a half years after
President Abraham Lincoln’s historic Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Maj.
Gen. Gordon Granger issued General Order No. 3, which informed the people
of Texas that all enslaved people were now free.” (National Archives
<https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/juneteenth-original-document>).
This historic day has since become known and commemorated as Juneteenth,
and also Freedom Day, and Emancipation Day.



As we remember the first Juneteenth, we explore some of the data resources
that preserve the history and experiences of former slaves and their
descendants.


[image: Should the government pay reparations?]

National Survey of American Life Self-Administered Questionnaire
(NSAL-SAQ), February 2001-June 2003 (ICPSR 27121 <https://myumi.ch/Bo5WB>)

   - The National Survey of American Life Self-Administered Questionnaire
   (NSAL-SAQ), February 2001-June 2003, asked its participants: “How strongly
   do you agree or disagree with the following statements? “The government
   should give reparations (compensation, payback) to African Americans for
   historical injustices and slavery.” This question comes from variable
   H76H <https://myumi.ch/qg3RW>. Explore the full dataset to see how
   respondents answered this question and others.
   - What did former slaves remember about slave masters' actions after
   Emancipation? Some of the different scenarios that played out are preserved
   in variable ACTEND <https://myumi.ch/yK3NR> of the National Survey of
   American Life Self-Administered Questionnaire (NSAL-SAQ), February
   2001-June 2003 (ICPSR 27121).


Quantitative Data Coded from the Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives,
United States, 1936-1938 (ICPSR 36381 <https://myumi.ch/QA97q>)

After Emancipation, did former slaves keep their names given by slave
masters, or did they invent new names to go with their new lives? One of
the variables <https://myumi.ch/r83o7> in Quantitative Data Coded from the
Federal Writers' Project Slave Narratives asks former slaves about their
choice of names after Emancipation.


[image: What is the origin of the former slave's choice of name?]

Economics of American Negro Slavery Series

The Economics of American Negro Slavery Series <https://myumi.ch/2Dnre> was
developed by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman at the University of
Rochester with data originally obtained from the notarized bills of sale at
the New Orleans Notarial Archival Office, and probate records for southern
counties obtained from the Genealogical Society library of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah. These data were
also included in the project: "The Relative Efficiency of Slave and Free
Agriculture in 1850 and 1860," funded by the National Science Foundation.
Data are provided on slave sale transactions, and personal characteristics
of individuals appearing in group sale transactions (wherever possible),
including characteristics of one "principal slave of record," and
characteristics of children sold in a group with the principal slave of
record.


New Orleans Slave Sale Sample, 1804-1862 (ICPSR 7423 <http://myumi.ch/ov2mP>
)

This study includes data on slave sales that occurred on the New Orleans
slave market between 1804-1862. For each sale, information was recorded on
the date of the sale, the number of slaves on the invoice, the geographical
origin of the buyer and seller, the sale price, and characteristics of the
slaves sold (age, sex, family relationship, and occupation). The
information presented for each transaction was obtained from the notarized
bills of sale in the New Orleans Notarial Archival Office. These bills
often contained information on several persons who were sold in a group or
as a "lot." Whenever feasible, sale and personal characteristics of
individuals appearing in such groups were entered on separate records. This
was usually done when separate sale prices were recorded for each member of
the group. When separate prices were not recorded for children sold in a
group, information describing those children was attached to the record of
a principal slave with whom they were associated on the original bill of
sale.


Slave Hires, 1775-1865 study (ICPSR 7422 <http://myumi.ch/E3G4K>)

This study presents data pertaining to slave hiring transactions that
occurred between 1775-1865 in eight states of the southern United States:
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee,
Georgia, and Mississippi. The data were obtained from probate records on
deposit in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Genealogical
Society Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Variables document the location of
the hiring transaction and the period and rate of hire, as well as the
hired slaves' age, sex, occupational skills, and condition of health. A
related study is Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865 (ICPSR 7421), also
prepared by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.


Slave Sales and Appraisals, 1775-1865 (ICPSR 7421 <https://myumi.ch/jxPoN>)

This study presents data pertaining to slave sales and appraisals that took
place from 1775 to 1865 in eight states of the southern United States:
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee,
Georgia, and Mississippi. The data were obtained from probate records on
deposit in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Genealogical
Society Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. Variables document the sale
locations and the appraised and sale values of the slaves, as well as the
slaves' age, sex, occupational skills, and condition of health. A related
study is Slave Hires, 1775-1865 (ICPSR 7422), also prepared by Robert W.
Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman.


[image: General Order No. 3, as seen in the National Archives]
*General General Order No. 3, as seen in the National Archives
<https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/juneteenth-original-document>,
informed the people of Texas that all enslaved people were now free.*

Three-Generation National Survey of Black American Families, 1979-1981 (ICPSR
9288 <http://myumi.ch/K4QBA>)

This dataset was created by merging information collected from three
questionnaires that form part of the National Survey of Black Americans,
1979-1980 (ICPSR 8512) (NSBA). The three questionnaires were (1) the
original cross-sectional survey questionnaire, (2) the reinterview
questionnaire, and (3) the family members questionnaire. All three were
administered from 1979-1981. The unit of analysis in this dataset is three
generations of a family, or a "triad." Each unit or record has identical
variables for the three individuals making up a triad (i.e., a grandparent,
parent, and child). There are 510 triads in this dataset. The study
explores feelings and attitudes across the three generations regarding
neighborhood-community integration, services, crime and community contact,
the role of religion and the church, physical and mental health, and
self-esteem. Employment, the effects of chronic unemployment, the effects
of race on the job, and interaction with family and friends are also
examined. In addition, the survey provides information on racial attitudes,
race identity, group stereotypes, and race ideology. Demographic variables
include age, education, income, occupation, and political behavior, and
affiliation.


Resource Center for Minority Data

The Resource Center for Minority Data (RCMD) <http://myumi.ch/3qzBK>
provides educators, researchers, and students with data resources so that
they can produce analysis of issues affecting minority populations in the
United States.


Philadelphia Social History Project: Pennsylvania Abolition Society and
Society of Friends Manuscript Census Schedules, 1838, 1847, 1856 (I
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/03805>CPSR 3805
<https://myumi.ch/51k5V>)

Initially taken in 1838 to demonstrate the stability and significance of
the African American community and to forestall the abrogation of African
American voting rights, the Quaker and Abolitionist census of African
Americans was continued in 1847 and 1856 and present an invaluable view of
the mid-nineteenth century African American population of Philadelphia.
Although these censuses list only household heads, providing aggregate
information for other household members, and exclude the substantial number
of African Americans living in white households, they provide data not
found in the federal population schedules. When combined with the
information on African Americans taken from the four federal censuses, they
offer researchers a richly detailed view of Philadelphia's African American
community spanning some forty years.


National Survey of Black Americans Series

The National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA) series <http://myumi.ch/xmGVq>
was developed by the Program for Research on Black Americans at the
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. It was initiated in
1977 with funding provided by the National Institute of Mental Health,
Center for the Study of Minority Group Mental Health. The series was
developed to address the limitations in the existing research literature on
the study of Black Americans. It seeks to provide an appropriate
theoretical and empirical approach to concepts, measures, and methods in
the study of Black Americans. The size and representativeness of the sample
permit systematic investigation of the heterogeneity of the adult Black
population. The series furnishes data on major social, economic, and
psychological aspects of Black American life.


External data resources

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Extend your research impact: Archive your Juneteenth-related research with
ICPSR

Do you have data related to Juneteenth that you’d like to archive and
share? Consider archiving it with ICPSR so that it may continue to answer
research questions in the years to come. Visit our data deposit page
<https://myumi.ch/dO3Q5> for more information.



Contact: Dory Knight-Ingram <dkni at umich.edu>



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