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<h1>Reconstructing African American Mobility after Emancipation, 1865-1867</h1>
<h2>William G. Thomas III, Richard G. Healey, and Ian Cottingham</h2>
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<h3>Labor Contracts of Upper South Freedmen's Bureau Offices</h3>
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<p class="lead published-in">Published in <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2017.23">Cambridge Core in Social Science History, Volume 41 / Issue 4</a></p>
<h3>Abstract</h3>
<p>Historians and social scientists have relied on contemporaneous textual accounts to document African American mobility in the immediate aftermath of emancipation after the Civil War, but they have interpreted them in widely varying ways. Some emphasize large-scale migration across the South, while others suggest that most movements were local and limited. This research tracks the early or “first wave” of African American migrants between 1865 and 1867 within and out of the South in an attempt to map the motion taking place after the war and to document the scale, direction, and intensity of African American mobility in the period between 1865 and 1867. The Freedmen's Bureau records indicate certain kinds of movements within the South, while our census methodology shows that there was more movement out of the South than accounted for in the Freedmen's Bureau labor records or previously accounted for in the historiography. Further, we observe two types of movement: short-term migration based on one-year contracts, perhaps returning to the point of origin, and another movement not always mediated through the Freedmen's Bureau that was more long term, but also subject to the freedperson's return to the point of origin. We seek to chart the process of emancipation over time and across space, detecting spatial patterns on an otherwise highly variable individual experience. No study has used the Freedmen's Bureau labor contracts to trace African American labor movements, and no study has deployed the 1880 individual census data to examine African American migration based on birthplace cohorts.</p>
<p>Over 2,600 contracts are shown here indicating their point of origin and destination. The interactive map features a dynamic presentation of these data that shows each individual contract and office's activity over time and across space on a day-by-day basis. The data may also be queried and downloaded. This visualization accompanies "Figure 2. The Freedmen's Bureau offices in the Upper South."</p>
<h3>Software</h3>
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<li>Source code: <a href="https://github.com/CDRH/aurora_visualizations">https://github.com/CDRH/aurora_visualizations</a></li>
<li>Mapping software: <a href="http://leafletjs.com" title="A JS library for interactive maps">Leaflet</a></li>
<li>Map tiles: <a href="http://stamen.com">Stamen Design</a>, <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0">CC BY 3.0</a></li>
<li>Map data: © <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright">OpenStreetMap</a></li>
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<h3>Data</h3>
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<li>Steven Manson, Jonathan Schroeder, David Van Riper, and Steven Ruggles. IPUMS National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 12.0 [Database]. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. 2017. http://doi.org/10.18128/D050.V12.0</li>
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<h3>Credits</h3>
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<li>William G. Thomas III, Principal Investigator and Author</li>
<li>Jessica Dussault, Programmer</li>
<li>Karin Dalziel, Designer</li>
<li>Nicholas Gliserman, GIS Consultation</li>
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