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Demographic Dimensions of the New Republic: American Interregional Migration, Vital Statistics, and Manumissions, 1800-1860

By Richard J. Zeckhauser , Peter D. McClelland

Book information

Year
1983
ISBN
9780521243094, 9780511528705, 0521522366, 0521243092, 0511528701, 9780521522366
LCC
HA214 .M38 2004
Open Library ID
OL3435700M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10350926 bytes)
Pages
236\232
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book provides the first comprehensive and consistent analysis of vital statistics and migration patterns for the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War. It is anchored in the one available source for nationwide estimates, the decennial censuses. It attempts to provide, for black and white populations, a consistent set of estimates of birth and death rates, rates of natural increase, and net international and interregional flows. For the black population, it also estimates the changing pace of manumissions in the antebellum decades. The census estimates are also conditioned by a wide range of historical evidence, both quantitative and non-quantitative, ranging from evidence on slave smuggling to ship traffic during the War of 1812. The results are two-fold: a set of data and a set of questions suggested by the data that promise novel challenges for historians of the antebellum era.

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