
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.



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