Compiled by Herbert S. Klein. The data were compiled from the Diario do Rio de Janeiro and Jornal do Comercio located at the Arquivo Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. Abstract These data were collected as part of an examination of the nature of the incidence of mortality and larger aspects of the slave trade in the late 1820s, in order to reconstruct Afro-American historical development and expansion into the Atlantic world. As a reminder, all of this information is from the original codebook and some sections may now be obsolete. The archival file consists of one file stored on magnetic tape.
All information is in character format.