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Oversize Blue Charts - Comparative Figures on Population Literacy, and Agriculture for 1840-1850-1860, (Compiled circa 1939-1945 from Published Census)

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Identifier: spc-mss0321-i0029
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Frank L. Owsley is recognized as one of the first, if not the first, historian to make use of quantitative methods. These charts were made to obtain statistical data for several doctoral dissertations directed by Professor Owsley; for his own book, Plain Folk of the Old South, and for the books of two of the compilers, Clark's Tennessee Yeoman, and Mooney's Slavery in Tennessee. Charts compiled...
Dates: (Compiled circa 1939-1945 from Published Census)
Found in: Vanderbilt University Special Collections and University Archives / Hariett Chappel Owsley Collection

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