[Blacks in Philadelphia in 1838 : statistics].

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Philadelphia Social History Project.

Contributor:

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Statistics.

African Americans.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Freed persons--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Statistics.

Freed persons.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Census, 1838.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Genre:

Statistics.

Physical Description:

volumes ; 30 x 45 cm

Place of Publication:

[between 1970 and 1979?]

Contents:

[1] 1838 old: location

[2] 1838 old : by ward within each location

[3] Rank orders, 1838 males

[4] Occupation categories, Male vertical 01-3

[5] Occupation categories, male, horizontal 9-16, 17-23 (2 v.)

[6] 1838 PLOTTAB totals

[7] Total wealth, 5 categories

[8] Denominations, 0-9

[9] Category no. 1 of 5, Total wealth, non church-goers

[10] Non-church vs. church goers

[11] Old: churches

[12] 1st Church

[13] Selected, 1st Church (2 v.)

[14] Old 1st church, sorted by ID order

[15] Population by church, alphabetical within church

[16] Free-born HH (Household) Hds. of ex-slave HHs by sex

[17] Free-born v. ex-slave (fam. hds); Free-born households v. ex-slave (households)

[18] Sex: Free-born HH

[19] ID listing

[20] Quaker & Abol. C. 1838 Shups version

[21] Alphabetical listing

[22] Ex-slave HH heads of ex-slave HHs by sex

[23] Ex-slave HHs with F-B fam. hds. ; Ex-slave HHs with slave-born fam. hds., by denomination

[24] Ex-slave HHs

CF Soundex

[25] Male, female, widow ex-slave hhs.

[26] Ex-slave HH heads with possible links to 1847, 1856, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, Soundex

[27] Free-born HHs vs. ex-slave HHs (2 v.)

[28] Ex-slave HHs, free-born heads

[29] Q & A with U.S. Census occ. codes

[30] Occupational categories, Male, horizontal

[31] How ex-slave heads of family freed

[32] Grid square density

[33] File sorted by name

[34] Wealth tables

[35] Old total (3 v.)

[36] Church by color (white, black)

[37] Nativity

[38] Sex, M,F,W, ex-slave HH heads, 1 Free, 2 Bought

[39] Free-born HHs, 2488 HHs

[40] Sex, M,F,W: ex-slave HH heads

[41] How head of family freed

[42] Individual churches

[43] Philadelphia wards 1-15

[44] Q&A Catholics, by last name

[45] Trades.

Notes:

Computer printouts of various files run on data selected by members of the Philadelphia Social History Project from the population schedules of the 1838 census of free African-Americans in Philadelphia. The census was undertaken by a committee of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.

Title supplied by cataloger. Titles of volumes taken from back edge of printouts or labels on printout covers. Some printouts may be duplicates or reflect runs made on different occasions.

OCLC:

63550157