10.3886/ICPSR09430.v1 Sutch, Richard Ransom, Roger Southern
Agricultural Households in the United States, 1880 Inter-
university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1991
agriculture American Civil War census data crops farming
household composition households livestock national economy
nineteenth century race Southern United States wages and
salaries 1991-03-05 2007-09-19 1879 1880 census/enumeration data
9430 1 This data collection describes the organization of
agriculture and the operation of the Southern economy following
the Civil War, with emphasis on the relationship between race
and tenure status of farm operators. Economic and agricultural
data were compiled from the 1880 Census of Agriculture.
Information provided includes the location of the farm (region,
state, county, and enumeration district), tenure of the farm
operator, number of acres in tillage, meadows, woodland, and
other uses, type of crops being farmed and production figures,
and the number of various livestock (horses, mules, oxe