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The Census of 1860.

Title

The Census of 1860.

Description

This picture depicts a table of slave ownership in the slave owning states in the United States. The reason I used this source was to provide first hand information on how many slaves were in North Carolina and Virginia to show how similar the ration in their populations were so similar.

Creator

Harper's Weekly

Source

"Slave Census of 1860," in "Slave Census," Son of the South, http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/slave-maps/slave-census.htm (accessed March 23, 2013).

Date

1861-04-06

Contributor

Hammond, Andrew

Type

Document

Coverage

United States of America

Original Format

Government Document

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Files

slave-census.jpg

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Citation

Harper's Weekly, The Census of 1860. , Civil War Era NC, accessed November 17, 2024, https://cwnc.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/732.