Louisiana Slave Database 1

Running Head: LOUISIANA SLAVEDATABASE

Statistics from the Louisiana Slave Database

Jay Davis

Tuskegee University
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This data came from the Louisiana slave database. The piechart above is titled Mean

price by origin. What that means is that the average price of the slave(s) by or depending on the

slaves’ origin. During slavery each slave was sold and purchased based on their abilities, talents,

personalities, etc. any thing that would have been useful to the buyer. If the slave was a good

cook, they sold for a lot or more than a slave who wasn’t a cook. If they were missing a limb or

were ill, the price of the slave decreased.

The piechart shows the percentage of what slave sold for the highest prices depending on

their origin or where they were from. The origins in which the slave came from was New

Orleans, Pointee Coupee, and St. Charles. Eight percent of the slaves that originated from

Pointee Coupee were sold for high prices or where valuable. Eight percent of the slaves that

originated from St. Charles were valuable or sold for a high price. However on the other hand,

eighty-four percent of the slaves that originated from New Orleans were expensive. From the

chart alone it lokks as if the slaves from New Orleans sold for high prices and were talented.
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The above data here also came from the louisiana slave database. The name of the chart is

all slaves by gender. In the chart there is female, male, and the humans that were unidentifiable. I

think the unidentifiable humans were the who could have badly been beaten to the point that

were no longer identifiable as a man or a woman.

The pie chart shows the percentage of the gender of all the slaves that were in the

louisiana slave database. Ten percent of the slaves were unidentifiable, which I found to be very

sad, it only shows how these humans were treated. Its very hard to say that someone, a human at

that, is unidentifiable. Thirty-nine percent of the slaves were females, and the remaining fifty-

one percent of the slaves were males, which I found to be very ironic. I thought there would have

been more females for reproduction and nurturing purposes. With that being said I was proven to

be wrong in my assumption of their being more female slaves than male slaves.
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The data here is from the louisiana slave database as well. The title of my chart is most

frequent africans from ethnicities by gender. In other words the piechrt shows the percentage of

the Africans from the different ethnicities. The different ethnicities listed were Louisiana Creole,

Coast of Senegal, and Cango.

What the data shows is the percent of Africans who have come from different ethnicities.

Of the slaves seventeen percent were from Cango, twenty-nine percent were from the coast of

Senegal, and lastly once again Louisiana or Creoles are at the top of the charts. Fifty-four percent

of the africans were from louisina or where Creole. I think there was a lot of slaves from

Louisiana or who were Creole because they were good at certain things like cooking, they were

also thee closest to the water and were easily reachable like that.
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This data has come from the louisiana slave database. The piechart here shows the mean

price of the slave based on their slave value. The slave values are 0, 500, 1000. What that is is

it’s the cost of the slave and the percentshows how many people paid that price for a single or a

group of slaves. The slavevalue zero represents the slaves that were sold for less than 500

dollars.

The piechart shows the value of the slaves that were sold and what percentage of people

paid what pricefor the number of slave(s). According to my piechart, the slaves who sold for less

than 500 dollars, 31.1 percent of slave buyers purchased them. 2.8 percent of slave buyers who

purchased slaves paid 500 dollars or more for them. 2.1 percent of slave buyers purchased their

slaves at the slave value of 1000 dollars or more. I would assume that the slaves that sold for

1000 dollars or more were very talented or could have been a whole family. The slaves that were

sold at the slave value of 0-500 could have been just ordinary single slaves.
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Summary and Conclusion

This project was to see how white folks played their cards. The slave database showed how

slaves were categorized, labeled, sold, viewed, etc. The information came from the Louisiana

slave database. A lot of information, matter of fact, all the information on the slaves in many

places is located in the slave database. The information listed in the database ranges from the

slaves’ gender, to the slave’s age, to the slaves’ price, to the slave’s birthplace, to the slave’s

talents and abilities, to the slave’s illness or handicap, and so forth. The slaves were analyzed and

watched from head to toe and not only that, the status of the slaves were recorded and saved.

With the data provided from the database I was able to make my own pie charts and sub data and

write about it. The titles of the data I used and wrote about was the slave value (or the value for

which a slave sold for), the slaves location (where they lived), the slaves gender (male, female,

and unidentifiable), and the slaves birthplace (where the slave was born).

In conclusion, however I didn’t provide all the data that was in the Louisiana database.

But the data I was able to provide all showed and reflected different results. Some data was

surprising, other was ironic, and some was even sad to analyze and think about. The data that I

found to be very ironic was the preference of the male slave over the female slave. On the other

hand what I found very sad and touching was the categorization of the slaves’ gender. I figured

there would just be the male and the female slaves. There was a portion of the slaves that were

labeled “unidentifiable”. Slaves were treated very unjustly by their owners most of the time,

however after all that we’ve been through as African Americans still today we manage to do and

complete some of the greatest things in the world today.