Essay On Slave Sale Dataset

We may truly never gain a full understanding as to how the slave trade operated, due to insufficient or lost information. Unfortunately, the Slave Sale dataset is an example. The information presented can only allow and understanding of slave trade in the seven states. Something that I wish the spreadsheet recorded were names. Although I am sure there might be other records with names of slaves, it would have been beneficial for this recording. Introducing names also provides a different aspect to analyze. For example, slave sales often times broke apart families, with more names recorded we can see if any family member were being sold into different states. Were there children being separated from their mothers?
Once variables from the dataset began to connect with one another, I was able to better
In order to answer some of the question it would require more outside research. For example, I would try to find other records of slave sale from different states to compare whether my observations are true for other southern plantations. As well as comparing northern and southern plantation. Based on the geographic location of the plantations there were some differences between more northern states like Maryland and Virginia and southern states like Mississippi and Louisiana. Therefore I would like to further explore whether there were different values, different skills or different types of defect depending on the location of the plantation. I also want to find other general recordings about African American slave trade. Slave stories and non-fictional novels are also important factors to look at because they are first hand accounts. The stories can come from a slave who was sold away from his or her family or a slave who had multiply skills on a plantation or even a slave with a defect like old age or a body defect and how having a defect affected their life on a