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Project#2

Louisiana Slaves Database

LaShauna Crayton

Sowk 300 Computer Application

February 24, 2011

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Gender of Louisiana Slaves

Missing

10.0%

female

39.2%

male
50.8%

Louisiana Slave Database

Description
I conducted a project that included the database of slaves in Louisiana. I

discovered how many male and female slaves that were present at that time and from my

research there were 39 females and 50 males present at the time. There were 10 percent

of the slaves that wasn’t counted for so, therefore, it could be more males or females that

were present.

Interpretation

There were more slaves as males than females that we know of. Why I said that is

because we still have some responds that are missing. It wasn’t any surprise that it would

be more males than females. Males are needed for their strength and their ability to work

under any circumstance. Females are able to get pregnant and wouldn’t be able to do a lot

of things.
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Description
The slaves from the Louisiana database are from different regions. You have

some of the slaves from Central Africa. There were more of the slaves regions in the

missing category than any. They were also from certain areas along the coast and some

surrounding areas.

Interpretation

More of the slaves were categorized under missing. Why, I have the slightest idea

but, maybe because the slave owners didn’t know where they found the slave at or

because the slaves were hiding and capture in other areas besides their region. It could

also be because the slaves didn’t know where they came from; lets remind ourselves they

couldn’t read or write.

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Description
The slaves that were captured and represented in the Louisiana Database all had

different background origins. You would find some that were Creoles, Africans, Indians

and some were also from the Caribbean. The slaves that were cast as unidentified could

fall under the other categories.

Interpretation

I actually thought that the only slaves would be Africans. What shock me the

most was the fact that it was some Indians slaves and Creoles. I thought that those would

be the slave owners. To my surprise, slaves are develop from any type of origin; not just

Africans, as I was taught growing up.

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Race of Louisiana Slaves

missing

quadroon

octoroon Missing

metis (white & India grif

other Indian

mulatto

black

Louisiana Slaves Database

Description
I really don’t know if those are words they used to describe the different race but,

I must admit I never heard of some of those words. It this graph you can see that there

were more black slaves than any other race. There was more slaves race missing than the

other race. Also there were very few of metis (white and India) slaves that were present

in the Louisiana Database.

Interpretation

There were more blacks than any other race. Overall there were just blacks as

slaves in the Louisiana database. They outnumbered the other entire race as I expected. I

used a pie chart to demonstrate how many slaves of the different race listed and the most

come from the blacks. So, what I being learning as a child is semi right, although there

were other race as slaves but the majority of them were black.
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Description
How most of the skills that the slaves obtain are missing. Some of the things that

the slaves were doing were agriculture, crafts, industry, and fishing. The majority of the

skills are missing but most of the slaves were doing agriculture work and also domestic.

You had a few of them that did a little crafts.

Interpretation

Of course, most of the slaves would be doing agriculture. That is consisting of picking

cotton and also planting it. I guess that the crafts jobs were left for the women and

children to do while the men skills were agriculture. I also think that the men did the

domestic work.
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Map of African Country

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Summary and Conclusion

All the information came from the Louisiana Database. In this project, I learned a

lot. I really learned a whole of things that I didn’t know about slaves and what was their

purpose in life and also about their background. I knew that they didn’t discriminate on

what type of people they use, own, and beat. There were a few females and a lot of males

present in the Louisiana Database. At the same time, there were different kinds of slaves

with different background, origin, and race.

Although the majority of slaves were black, it makes me feel a lot better to know

that it was some white slaves and also some India slaves. I know it wasn’t right for

people to be capture and held hostage, slave owners taught them a lot at the same time.

Slaves were able to plant, create, cook, and other things. They were taught a lot at the

time they were under other supervision.

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AFLANG:Type: 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

SEX: Gender of slave in this record.

1 = female
2 = male
9 = sex is unidentified

RACE: 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

AGECATN : When only age categories were indicated.

1 unborn
2 nursing
3 infant
4 child
5 young
6 adult
7 old
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CHARCAT: Characteristics of this slave, by category.
1 runaway, helps runaways
2 behavior problems, bad character in general,
3 thief, ladron,voleur,
4 strong, good worker, forte, fuerte
5 intelligent, intelligente
6 gambler
7 criminal behavior, in jail, accused of some
8 good character, bon sujet, etc.
10 drunkard, boracho, (also 73 under sick).

RUNAWAY

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.