Statistics Sources
- Statistics (finding numbers)General guide for finding statistical tables and data for all levels of government.
- The Black Population in the United StatesA collection of links to U.S. Census Bureau reports.
- Race DataA collection of links to U.S. Census Bureau reports.
- Slave Movement during the 18th and 19th centuriesFrom the Data and Information Services Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "This site provides access to the raw data [Free registration is required to download the data] and documentation which contains information on the following slave trade topics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries:
- records of slave ship movement between Africa and the Americas
- slave ships of eighteenth century France
- slave trade to Rio de Janeiro
- Virginia slave trade in the eighteenth century
- English slave trade (House of Lords Survey)
- Angola slave trade in the eighteenth century
- internal slave trade to Rio de Janeiro
- slave trade to Havana, Cuba
- Nantes slave trade in the eighteenth century
- slave trade to Jamaica"
- The African American Education Data Book byPublication Date: 1997
- Black Americans: a statistical sourcebook byPublication Date: 1996
Black Demographic Data, 1790-1860 by Publication Date: 1997An excellent resource on the changing population distribution of antebellum Black Americans, this book covers census data by region and state. Two-thirds of the book consists of tables and graphs providing dimensional representations of black populations, both free and slave, in pre-Civil War America.
Historical Statistics of Black America by Publication Date: 1994Nearly 2000 tables of statistical information on blacks in North America from colonial times until 1975. Subject-specific chapters are chronologically arranged and reflect developments in black history. Subjects include slavery, and the migration of blacks into the south between 1870 and 1910.- Statistical Record of Black America byPublication Date: 1990-
- We the People: Blacks in the United States byPublication Date: 2005
