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The African American education data book
Call number: LC2717.N47 1997. Education & Behavioral Sciences Library reference collection, 5th Floor Paterno Library

Black Americans : a statistical sourcebook
Call number: E185.5.B512, Social Sciences Library reference collection, 2nd Floor Paterno Library

Black demographic data, 1790-1860 : a sourcebook
Call number: E185.18.C73 1997, Social Sciences Library reference collection, 2nd Floor Paterno Library

1990 Census of Population. Characteristics of the Black Population
Call number: US 1990.299, Census Collection, 2nd Floor Paterno Library
Also available online from the U.S. Census Bureau.

New Orleans Slave Sample, 1804-1862
Additional data sets are available in ICPSR's Economics of American Negro Slavery series.

Historical Statistics of Black America
Call number: E185.H543 1995, Arts & Humanities Library Reference Collection, 2nd Floor Pattee Library.

Statistical Record of Black America
Call number: E185.5 .S78, Pattee Library Stacks, Level 1.

The Black population in the United States
Call number: C 3.186:P-20/B52/ , U.S. Documents, 2nd Floor Paterno Library Stacks
Also available online from the U.S. Census Bureau.

We the People : Blacks in the United States, from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Black Population in the United States
a collection of links to U.S. Census Bureau reports.

Race Data
a collection of links to U.S. Census Bureau reports.

Slave Movement during the 18th and 19th centuries
from the Data and Information Services Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "This site provides access to the raw data and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:

Free registration is required to download the data.

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