Box 2

Provides a key to explain numerical codes used in compiling a statistical analysis of Charleston's free black population. With lists of numerical codes given to street address and occupations. As well as a note by Jane Pease about the computer program used, the abandonment of the project, and the indecipherability of some of the data.

Includes an alphabetical lists of free blacks, followed by columns of numbers, some columns matching to the code book values noted above. With sections on Heads of Household, household composition, gender, city directory, Free Negro Books, ward and street, and occupation frequencies, with references to 1830 1840 censuses.