Project 2-The Louisiana Slave Database

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Running head: THE LOUISIANA SLAVE DATABASES

Project #2

The Louisiana Slave Databases and Annotated Graphs

Stephanie De Los Santos

Tuskegee University

SOWK 300-Section 01

Professor J.L. McArthur

October 19, 2010


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Figure 1

Figure 1 deals with the African regions from which the slaves that were brought to

Louisiana were taken from. Some of these countries had many slaves taken out of, like

Senegambia with 31%. Followed by another two countries a good numbers of slaves; Central

African with 19% and Bight of Benin with 15%.

This graph deals with the areas where slaves were taken from. As it is shown the majority

of the slaves were taken from the coastal area. The slaves also came from the central region of

the continent. We can assume that the nations that had a lot of individuals taken as slaves from

their land must have been a bit weaker than the other nations that had great numbers take from

them. Regarding the nations that have small number of individuals taken from them as slaves,

one can assume that they had stronger means of protection.


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Figure 2

Figure 2 illustrates the various different origins that the slaves that were brought to

Louisiana had. The first category is Creole, which consisted of 9.7% of the slaves that were

brought to the region. The second category is Africans, which consisted of 24.2% of slaves that

were also brought to the region. Followed by the Caribbean with 1.4% and Anglo with 2.2%

.The next two categories that come after are the Indians with .2% and other with1%. The last

category was the unidentified category which was comprised of 62.2%.

The data shows that although there was a large number of individuals whose origin was

unidentified, a good number of them were. From the categories that were indentified, the

majority of the individuals originated from Africa. These percentages were followed by the

Creoles, which had a good number of originators. One surprising thing was that fact that

individuals from Anglo were brought as slaves to the Area of Louisiana.


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Figure 3

The number of individuals that were adults were over any of the groups that were

indentified; leading with 11.6%. The various ages were allocated through different groups. They

were divided as Unborn, nursing, infant, child, young, adult, and old. The data that is shown in

the graph is not very informative, since the majority of individuals fell under the 0 (unidentified)

category, 83.7% of them.

The data illustrated, amongst the indentified variable, the majority of slaves that were

brought to Louisiana were adults. A large percentage of children were brought as well. A

question can be raised of what is the unidentified category mainly composed of? I would assume

that since the majority of individuals that were indentified belonged to the adults and children

group, the unknown numbers would possibly belong to that category.


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Figure 4

Figure 4 looks into the sex of the slaves that were brought to Louisiana. It is illustrated that

56.4% of the slaves that were imported were males. Also 46.3% of them were females. Shown is

that the amount of males that were brought almost equaled the amount of females.

The data that was presented in Figure 4 shows that the majority of the slaves that were

brought into the land of Louisiana were mainly Males. One can assume that the percentage of

males is greater because men tend to have more physical strength those females, and can do

more labor on the plantations, than a woman can. On the other hand the number of females that

were imported were high because they offered the advantage of being able to breed more slaves

for the plantations, instead of the owners finding themselves in the need of having to by more.


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Figure 5

Figure5 illustrates the various races of the slaves that brought into Louisiana. The

majority of the slaves that we imported were Black, 84% of them. Proceed by 5% of them that

were mulattos and .8% of them that were Grifs. A number other fell under the category of

missing, which race was not recorded or taken into account. Also .2% of the slaves were of the

Indian race.

This graph analyses the different races of slaves that were brought into the region of

Louisiana. The data exemplifies that most of the slaves were Black. Also showed that a good

number of them were mulattos, which comes after the fusion of the slave owners and the slaves

themselves. Although there is a good amount of individuals whose race is unknown, one can

assume that they belong to the Black or mulatto group.


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Summary and Conclusion

As a student of African descent, I think that is it very important to understand how and

why so many different types of Blacks live in America. Although the overall information that

was provided by this database was somewhat incomplete, it served as a very educational source.

When it came to telling a story of slavery in Louisiana by using this database, a number of cases

were missing, so a number of pieces would be missing in the story. The information reveals that

the slaves were missing a lot of information to make the stories of their life. The Louisiana

Slave Databases looked in to various variables, that served as clue givers to people about t he

types of slaves that were be found in the Louisiana region.

The database showed how Africa was important for the origination of most slaves. As

most of us know the slaves were abused physically, mentally and emotional and now I have

discovered how greatly they were abused historically. The data shows that a vast amount of data

was missing, showing that they didn t do a good job keeping the record of the incoming slaves;

hence depriving them in the future the opportunity to do research and look back at their history.

The assignment was to study the Louisiana Database and write about the variables that

were thought to hold most of our interest. With the help of SPSS we illustrated some of that

information retrieved from the data through graphs. Afterwards, I got a chance to give a

descriptive and interpretive description of the data that was shown in the graphs. This gave me

an opportunity, of really focusing on the information that was being provided and analyze the

data thoroughly.


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Code Book File

Item 1: African Region 1= African only2= unidentified

3= Mozambique4= Central Africa5= Bight of Biafra6= Bight of Benin7= Gold Coast8= Sierra Leone9= Senegambia10= Other11= Unidentified12= Missing

Item 2: Origin 1= Creole2= African3= Caribbean4= Anglo5= Indian6= Other7=UnidentifiedItem 3: Age1=Unborn2=Nursing3=Infant4=Child5=Young6=Adult7=OldItem 4: Sex1=Female2=Male9= Sex is UndefinedItem 5: Race1=Grif (usually means mixed Black/Indian)

2=Indian3=Black 4=Mulatto5=Quadroon6=Octoroon7=Metis8=Other9=Missing


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Output Files

Notes

Output Created 16-Oct-2010 10:16:05

Comments

Input Data C:\DOCUME~1\PCUSER~1\LOCALS~1\T

emp\Temporary Directory 3 for

Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV

Active Dataset DataSet1

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N of Rows in Working Data

File

100666

Syntax GRAPH

/PIE=COUNT BY sex.

Resources Processor Time 00:00:01.484

Elapsed Time 00:00:02.079

Notes


Comments

Input Data C:\DOCUME~1\PCUSER~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 3 for

Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


Filter


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Weight

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File

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Syntax GRAPH

/PIE=COUNT BY agecatn.



GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY afregion

/TITLE= Region .

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Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Syntax GRAPH


/TITLE='sdfnasdfasdf'.



Graph

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Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Syntax GRAPH


/TITLE='African Region'.



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Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Syntax GRAPH





[DataSet1] C:\DOCUME~1\PCUSER~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\Temporary Directory 3 for Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV

GRAPH

/BAR(SIMPLE)=PCT BY origin

/TITLE='Origin'.

Graph


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Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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File

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Syntax GRAPH


/TITLE='Origin'.





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Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Syntax GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY age

/TITLE='Age '.



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Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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File

100666

Syntax GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY agecatn

/TITLE='Age '.



GRAPH

/BAR(SIMPLE)=PCT BY agecatn

/TITLE='Age'.


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Graph

Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


Filter

Weight

Split File


File

100666

Syntax GRAPH


/TITLE='Age'.




GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY sex

/TITLE='SEX'.


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Graph

Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Weight

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File

100666

Syntax GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY sex

/TITLE='SEX'.





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Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


Filter

Weight

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File

100666

Syntax GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY sex

/TITLE='SEX'.



Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Filter

Weight

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File

100666

Syntax GRAPH

/BAR(SIMPLE)=PCT BY race

/TITLE='Race'.



Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Weight

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File

100666

Syntax GRAPH

/BAR(SIMPLE)=CUPCT BY race

/TITLE='Race'.



Graph

Notes


Comments



Slave.zip\SLAVE.SAV


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Weight

Split File

N of Rows in Working DataFile

100666


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Syntax GRAPH


/TITLE='Race'.





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Syntax

DATASET ACTIVATE DataSet1.

GRAPH



GRAPH


/TITLE='Origin'.

GRAPH


/TITLE='Age'.

GRAPH

/PIE=PCT BY sex

/TITLE='SEX'.

GRAPH


/TITLE='Race'.


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Project 2-The Louisiana Slave Database