Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860: A Sourcebook

by Clayton E. Cramer

Overview

An excellent resource on the changing population distribution of antebellum Black Americans, this book covers census data by region and state. Two-thirds of the book consists of tables and graphs providing dimensional representations of black populations, both free and slave, in pre-Civil War America. The book opens with a discussion of the limitations of the census data, then goes on to provide an overview of the progress of manumission, abolition, and restrictions on black migration. The book also examines the 1840 census controversy. It will be a particularly useful resource for scholars concerned with changes in the black population.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313302435
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/11/1997
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.56(d)
Lexile:	1580L (what's this?)

About the Author

CLAYTON E. CRAMER is a graduate student at Sonoma State University. He has published extensively in the areas of history and criminology and is the author of For the Defense of Themselves and the State: The Original Intent and Judicial Interpretation of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (Praeger, 1994) and By the Din and Flaring Lamps: The Civil War Diary of Samuel McIlvaine (1990).

Table of Contents

Preface
Limitations of Census Data
Emancipation
Manumission
Internal Immigration Restrictions
Disabilities, Slave-Dumping, and the 1840 Census
International Black Migration
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

Presents tables and graphs of information on free black populations by state, with explanations, historical analysis, and commentary. Contains chapters on emancipation, manumission, internal immigration restrictions, slave-dumping and the 1840 census, and international black migration. Useful for historians. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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