1860 census slaveholders

PLANTATION NAMES. M., R. S. Taylor agent, 101 slaves, Franklin Twp., page 218B, THOMPSON & MARTIN, 108 slaves, Mississippi Twp., page 223, WARFIELD, W.? – a slaveholder and family with their one slave. States Covered were Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, District of Columbia, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Missouri, Utah, Georgia, New Jersey, Virginia. The actual number of slaveholders may be slightly lower because some large holders held slaves in more than one County and they would have been counted as a separate slaveholder in each County. The OBA database has right now 11,020 individual slaveholder names, representing a total of 792,219 slaves in 158 counties in 10 states. (Updated October 5, 2001 and December, 2004; now includes 19 holders). Whether or not the ancestor is found to have been a slaveholder, a viewing of the slave census will provide an informed sense of the extent of slavery in the ancestral County, particularly for those who have never viewed a slave census. 1860 Census Day: June 1, 1860. Estimates of the number of former slaves who used the surname of a former owner in 1870, vary widely and from region to region. In comparing census data for different years, changes in County boundaries, such as the taking of part of Desha County in 1871 to form part of Lincoln County and Desha acquiring part of Chicot County in 1879, have not been considered, on the presumption that the changes would have affected the comparison groups equally. Using the ‘Slaveholders by Surname’ tab, the alphabetical letters A to Z for the different surnames of those who owned slaves, in the Southern states. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.

Excluding slaves, the 1860 U.S. population was 27,167,529, with about 1 in 70 being a slaveholder. Slaveholders.

Some of these former slaves may have been using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder at the time of the 1870 census and they may have still been living in the same State or County. At best, a census slave schedule can provide supporting evidence for a hypothesis derived from other sources. This list of family names is growing and should be checked every few months. The online repository known as ‘Our Black Ancestry‘ (OBA) has placed a large collection of records that provides the names of people who held slaves in mid-1800s in America. Based on the 1860 Federal Slaveholder Census there were 393,975 slaveholders with a total of 3,950,546 people in bondage. To assist with further research the site also have ‘Resources – Research Link’ providing five other sites to help in the search. (As a side note, by 1960, 100 years later, the County was listed as having 10,784 whites, almost a four fold increase, while the 1960 total of 9,972 "Negroes"was about two and a half times what the colored population had been 100 years before.) Racially related terms such as African American, black, mulatto and colored are used as in the source or at the time of the source, with African American being used otherwise. By 1860, there were a total of thirty-three states in the Union, with Minnesota and Oregon being the latest editions. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 1860 Census Geography. (Use Cropper to set image and use mouse scroller for zoom image. The transcriber noticed no such slave on this enumeration.

Slave schedules are not available for other states. The information on surname matches of 1870 African Americans and 1860 slaveholders is intended merely to provide data for consideration by those seeking to make connections between slaveholders and former slaves. Several of these have the county and state name, the slaveholder’s full name and how many slaves they owned. LARGEST SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES. However, in most cases slaves are listed from eldest to youngest with no apparent effort to portray family structure. 1860 SLAVES AGE 100 AND UP. Where did the freed slaves go if they did not stay in the County?

1850–1860 Federal Slave Schedule. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,322, in 33 states and 10 organized territories. Slaves age 100 and up were supposed to be named in the 1860 census, but only some of these slaves in fact had their names recorded on the census.

When you select a letter there will be a long list of name and then locations. There were no substantial state  or district-wide losses. If the surname is found, they can then view the microfilm for the details listed regarding the sex, age and color of the slaves. Published information giving names of slaveholders and numbers of slaves held is almost non-existent. PURPOSE. Because some names are more indelible than others it, this transcription is basically still under construction. By the 1870 census, the white population of Desha County had decreased almost 18% to 2,185, while the "colored" population increased a slight 3% to 3,934. FORMAT. H.?, 109 slaves, Mississippi Twp., page 221, BAILEY, James, 68 slaves, Mississippi Twp., page 222, BALLARD, Thos. Particularly in the case of these larger slaveholders, the data seems to show in general not many freed slaves in 1870 were using the surname of their 1860 slaveholder. It is estimated by this transcriber that in 1860, slaveholders of 200 or more slaves, while constituting less than 1 % of the total number of U.S. slaveholders, or 1 out of 7,000 free persons, held 20-30% of the total number of slaves in the U.S. Slaveholders Index (partial) Texas, SLAVE, Roll 1312 Book 1, Page 481a-491a . There were no substantial state  or district-wide losses. J.?, 98 slaves, Mississippi Twp., page 227, HOLMES, Finley, A. C. Holmes Agent, 67 slaves, Bartholomew Twp., page 215, JOHNSON, Henry J., 59 slaves, Mississippi Twp., page 223B, JOHNSON, Matilda, 119 slaves, Redfork Twp., page 234, MAPLES, Josiah, 69 slaves, Redfork Twp., page 230, MARTIN & BRANCH, 183 slaves, Redfork Twp., page 233, MCBRIE?, Hector, 60 slaves, Redfork Twp., page 236, MONTGOMERY, R., 56 slaves, Wilkinson Twp., page 238B, RIDLEY? This website uses cookies and third party services. Under ‘Shared Legacies’ there are some 34 individual family surnames on the left side from which to select. Slaves were enumerated in 1860 without giving their names, only their sex and age and indication of any handicaps, such as deaf or blind Slaves 100 years of age or older were supposed to be named on the 1860 slave schedule, but there were only 1,570 slaves of such age enumerated, out of a total of 3,950,546 slaves nationwide.

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