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 only
2= unidentified
3= Mozambique
4= Central Africa
5= Bight of Biafra
6= Bight of Benin
7= Gold Coast
8= Sierra Leone
9= Senegambia
10= Other
11= Unidentified
12= Missing
Item 2: Origin
1= Creole
2= African
3= Caribbean
4= Anglo
5= Indian
6= Other
7=Unidentified
Item 3: Age
1=Unborn
2=Nursing
3=Infant
4=Child
5=Young
6=Adult
7=Old
Item 4: Sex
1=Female
2=Male
9= Sex is Undefined
Item 5: Race
1=Grif (usually means mixed Black/Indian)
2=Indian
3=Black
4=Mulatto
5=Quadroon
6=Octoroon
7=Metis
8=Other
9=Missing
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Output Files
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/BAR(SIMPLE)=CUPCT BY race
/TITLE='Race'.
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Syntax GRAPH
/TITLE='Race'.

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Syntax
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GRAPH
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/TITLE='Origin'.
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/TITLE='Age'.
GRAPH
/PIE=PCT BY sex
/TITLE='SEX'.
GRAPH
/TITLE='Race'.
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Running head: THE LOUISIANA SLAVE DATABASES

The Louisiana Slave Databases and Annotated Graphs

Stephanie De Los Santos

Professor J.L. McArthur

October 19, 2010

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

one can assume that they had stronger means of protection.

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

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

category, 83.7% of them.

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

assume that they belong to the Black or mulatto group.

Summary and Conclusion

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

Code Book File

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