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STATE |
TOTAL POPULATION |
TOTAL NO. OF SLAVES |
NO. OF FAMILIES |
TOTAL FREE POPULATION |
TOTAL NO. OF SLAVEHOLDERS |
PERCENT OF FAMILIES OWNING SLAVES |
SLAVES AS PERCENT OF POPULATION |
ALABAMA |
964,201 |
435,080 |
96,603 |
529,121 |
33,730 |
35% |
45% |
ARKANSAS |
435,450 |
111,115 |
57,244 |
324,335 |
11,481 |
20% |
26% |
CALIFORNIA |
379,985 |
0 |
98,767 |
379,994 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
CONNECTICUT |
460,138 |
0 |
94,831 |
460,147 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
DELAWARE |
112,216 |
1,798 |
18,966 |
110,418 |
587 |
3% |
2% |
FLORIDA |
140,424 |
61,745 |
15,090 |
78,679 |
5,152 |
34% |
44% |
GEORGIA |
1,057,286 |
462,198 |
109,919 |
595,088 |
41,084 |
37% |
44% |
ILLINOIS |
1,711,942 |
0 |
315,539 |
1,711,951 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
INDIANA |
1,350,419 |
0 |
248,664 |
1,350,428 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
IOWA |
674,904 |
0 |
124,098 |
674,913 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
KANSAS |
107,206 |
2 |
21,912 |
107,204 |
2 |
0% |
0% |
KENTUCKY |
1,155,684 |
225,483 |
166,321 |
930,201 |
38,645 |
23% |
20% |
LOUISIANA |
708,002 |
331,726 |
74,725 |
376,276 |
22,033 |
29% |
47% |
MAINE |
628,270 |
0 |
120,863 |
628,279 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
MARYLAND |
687,049 |
87,189 |
110,278 |
599,860 |
13,783 |
12% |
13% |
MASSACHUSETTS |
1,231,057 |
0 |
251,287 |
1,231,066 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
MICHIGAN |
749,104 |
0 |
144,761 |
749,113 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
MINNESOTA |
172,014 |
0 |
37,319 |
172,023 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
MISSISSIPPI |
791,305 |
436,631 |
63,015 |
354,674 |
30,943 |
49% |
55% |
MISSOURI |
1,182,012 |
114,931 |
192,073 |
1,067,081 |
24,320 |
13% |
10% |
NEBRASKA |
28,841 |
15 |
5,931 |
28,826 |
6 |
0% |
0% |
NEVADA |
6,848 |
0 |
2,027 |
6,857 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
NEW HAMPSHIRE |
326,064 |
0 |
69,018 |
326,073 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
NEW JERSEY |
672,035 |
0 |
130,348 |
672,017 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
NEW YORK |
3,880,726 |
0 |
758,420 |
3,880,735 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
NORTH CAROLINA |
992,622 |
331,059 |
125,090 |
661,563 |
34,658 |
28% |
33% |
OHIO |
2,339,502 |
0 |
434,134 |
2,339,511 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
OREGON |
52,456 |
0 |
11,063 |
52,465 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
PENNSYLVANIA |
2,906,206 |
0 |
524,558 |
2,906,215 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
RHODE ISLAND |
174,611 |
0 |
35,209 |
174,620 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
SOUTH CAROLINA |
703,708 |
402,406 |
58,642 |
301,302 |
26,701 |
46% |
57% |
TENNESSEE |
1,109,801 |
275,719 |
149,335 |
834,082 |
36,844 |
25% |
25% |
TEXAS |
604,215 |
182,566 |
76,781 |
421,649 |
21,878 |
28% |
30% |
VERMONT |
315,089 |
0 |
63,781 |
315,098 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
VIRGINIA |
1,596,318 |
490,865 |
201,523 |
1,105,453 |
52,128 |
26% |
31% |
WISCONSIN |
775,872 |
0 |
147,473 |
775,881 |
0 |
0% |
0% |
Total |
31,183,582 |
3,950,528 |
5,155,608 |
27,233,198 |
393,975 |
8% |
13% |
Kindle Available On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker The daughter of slaves, Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. |
Kindle Available The Maps of First Bull Run: An Atlas of the First Bull Run (Manassas) Campaign, including the Battle of Ball's Bluff, June-October 1861 The Maps of First Bull Run breaks down the entire operation (and related actions) into numerous map sets or "action-sections" enriched with more than fifty full-color original full-page maps. These cartographic originals bore down to the regimental and battery level and include the march to and from the battlefield and virtually every significant event in between. |
Kindle Available A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication |
Kindle Available Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery Previously untapped documents and period photographs casts a dazzling, fresh light on the way that abolitionists, educators, missionaries, planters, politicians, and free children of color envisioned the status of African Americans after emancipation |
Kindle Available The Negro's Civil War: How American Blacks Felt and Acted During the War for the Union In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M. McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slaves and soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, and common people--during the Civil War |
Kindle Available Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America The evolution of black society from the first arrivals in the early seventeenth century through the Revolution |
Kindle Available Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860 An analysis of all aspects and particularly of the commercialism of black slaveowning debunks the myth that black slaveholding was a benevolent institution based on kinship, and explains the transition of black masters from slavery to paid labor. |
Kindle Available Men of Fire: Grant, Forrest, and the Campaign That Decided the Civil War In the winter of 1862, on the border between Kentucky and Tennessee, two extraordinary military leaders faced each other in an epic clash that would transform them both and change the course of American history forever |
Civil War Book Titles
Documents of the Civil War
Civil War Exhibits
Young Reader Selections
Civil War Summary
Women in the War
Civil War Cooking
Civil War Picture Album
General Robert E. Lee
General Ulysses S. Grant
Source:
Library of Congress
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
