Philadelphia Black People 1790 Census

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The Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD)
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African-American
Philadephia
Early America
Digital Humanities
Labor History
Social History
United States History
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(39.952335, -75.16378900000001)
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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2014-01-01
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Scholarly Commons, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
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Smith, Billy G. The “Lower Sort” Philadelphia’s Laboring People, 1750-1800 (http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100933110). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990--and many more.
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https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/39746
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The data is all the black householders recorded on the 1790 federal census in Philadelphia and its suburbs.

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To help explain the data, there are two separate files, a Codebook and Occupational Codes for men and women.
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