HIS 121/269 Research Document
North/South Demographic Data

1. Slave Population by State in 1790

2. Slave Population by State in 1850
3. Slaves and Immigrants in 1860
4. Slaves and Slaveholders in 1860 (South)
5. Slave concentration in 1860 (South)
6. Manufacturing in 1860
7. Farming North and South in 1860
8. Secession and Slavery in 1861 (South)
9. Colored Persons 1860-1870 (South)
10. Colored Persons 1870
11. Colored Persons 1860-1880

Note: Statistics can have a tendency to soften the dehumanization of slavery. 
See excerpts from the Remembering Slavery oral history project (Library of Congress).

Tables prepared for HIS 121/269 by Lori Helms, research assistant (September 2002). 
Source: U.S. Historical Census Data, University of Virginia Library.  Search Census Data > Click Here

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