Percentage of slaveholding households

Jimmy A. Roberts-Miller

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May 15, 1998, 3:00:00 AM5/15/98

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From time to time someone brings out the percentages of households which
owned slaves in the slaveholding states/south (usually around 25%). I was
wondering if some kind soul would point me towards the citations for that.
A web site would also be ideal.

I presume its in the FAQ somewhere but I don't see it on my new spool at
the moment. I guess a poiunter to the FAQ as well would be nice.

Thanks,

Jim Roberts-Miller

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James F. Epperson

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On Fri, 15 May 1998, Jimmy A. Roberts-Miller wrote:

> From time to time someone brings out the percentages of households which
> owned slaves in the slaveholding states/south (usually around 25%). I was
> wondering if some kind soul would point me towards the citations for that.
> A web site would also be ideal.

The information is in the 1860 Census -- more correctly, I think it can
be gleaned from the Census. A table of state-by-state percentages based
on that data is at

http:/members.aol.com/jfepperson/stat.hmtl

The table and accompanying discussion is near the bottom of the page.

Jim Epperson http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/causes.html

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Peter Mikalajunas

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On Fri, 15 May 1998 12:06:55 -0500, "James F. Epperson" <eppe...@math.uah.edu>
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You can also get census data for 1790 to 1970 at:

http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~census/

James F. Epperson

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On 16 May 1998, Brawnerfar wrote:

> >http:/members.aol.com/jfepperson/stat.hmtl
http://members.aol.com/jfepperson/stat.html

Damned typos!!

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Brawnerfar

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>http:/members.aol.com/jfepperson/stat.hmtl

Even changing the html I can't get this to work. Any help ?

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>"James F. Epperson" <eppe...@math.uah.edu> wrote

>Re: Percentage of slaveholding households
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I just wanted to thank everyone who provided me with the data I was
looking for. You guys are great!

Jim Roberts-Miller

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dan overton

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On Fri, 15 May 1998 20:44:53 GMT, kd...@xnet.com (Peter Mikalajunas)
wrote:

>You can also get census data for 1790 to 1970 at:
>
>http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~census/

Great site! Thank you, Peter. Here are some of the data I acquired
there:

Column 1 = State
Column 2 = Farms = total number of farms
Column 3 = Slavers = total number of slaveholders
Column 4 = Slaves Per = slaves per slaveholder

State Farms Slavers Slaves Per

AL 50,064 33,730 12.9
AR 33,190 11,481 9.7
DE 6,588 587 3.1
FL 6,396 15,090 12.0
GA 53,897 41,084 11.2
KY 83,689 38,645 5.8
LA 17,281 22,033 15.1
MD 25,244 13,783 6.3
MS 37,007 30,943 14.1
MO 88,552 24,320 4.7
NC 67,022 34,658 9.5
SC 28,456 26,701 15.1
TN 77,741 36,844 7.5
TX 37,363 21,878 8.3
VA 86,468 52,128 9.4

And from Epperson's invaluable website:

Slave-Owning Families as a Fraction of Total Free Households in the
State.

Mississippi: 49%
South Carolina:46%
Georgia: 37%
Alabama: 35%
Florida: 34%
Louisiana: 29%
Texas: 28%
North Carolina: 28%
Virginia: 26%
Tennessee: 25%
Kentucky: 23%
Arkansas: 20%
Missouri: 13%
Maryland: 12%
Delaware: 3%