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The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, ... the other was Schedule 2 (Slave Inhabitants).
Thomas B. Poindexter was an American slave trader and cotton planter. He had the highest net worth, US$350,000 (equivalent to $11,868,889 in 2023), of the 34 active resident slave traders indexed as such in the 1860 New Orleans census, ahead of Jonathan M. Wilson and Bernard Kendig.
At the time of the 1860 U.S. federal census, Maples, occupation "planter," with personal property valued at $10,000, lived in Redfork Township, Desha County, Arkansas, in a household shared with an overseer, a housekeeper, and their respective families. [1] The slave schedules show that 70 enslaved people worked on Maples' plantation. [15]
Census figures from 1860 indicate that 1 in 4 households in states where slavery was legal enslaved people, according to data from IPUMS’ National Historical Geographic Information System.
His occupation was planter, he owned real estate worth US$20,000 (equivalent to $678,222 in 2023), and his personal estate was worth US$42,000 (equivalent to $1,424,267 in 2023). [29] The 1860 slaves schedules for Louisiana record that John Lyons owned 38 people, the oldest being a 60-year-old man, the youngest being a one-year-old girl. [30]
The Federal 1860 slave schedule regarding D.W. Burnley enumerated four months later on August 16, 1860, documents 10 slaves owned, six of which are males of the ages of 1, 3, 7, 8, 15, and 44 (no names given), [17] possibly indicating years of birth of 1859, 1857, 1853, and 1852. Given the 1870 census documents Hughes at 11 years of age, the ...
In 1860, G.E. Rives owned 6 slaves in Prince George County, [11] and John E. Rives owned 35 slaves in Sussex County. [12] Rives won election and re-election as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1841), but chose not to seek re-election in 1840. While a Congressman, he served as chairman of the ...
The Seventh Census of the United States (1850) was taken June 1, 1850. This was the first year in which the census bureau attempted to count and name every member of every household, including women and children. Slaves were counted by gender and age on associated Slave Schedules, listed by their owner's name.