In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, ...

The U.S. Coast Survey map calculated the number of slaves in each county in the United States in 1860. Library of Congress In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map ...

In 1860, slavery was still legal in 15 of the 33 U.S. states, ... accessed July 15, Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States.

The Wide Awakes symbol was a single eye, open to the danger slavery posed. ... The Wide Awakes did not just march for show; they embodied the very real struggles dividing the United States in 1860.

SIR At the Wesleyan Conference in Liverpool, in 1859, Bishop SIMPSON and Dr. McCLINTOOK,two delegates from the American Methodist Episcopal Church, declared the body they represented to be Anti ...

Senator SEWARD, in his speech on Friday night, declared the whole aim and duty of the Republican Party to be, to leave Slavery just where it is.

The viral post said that "at the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books doesn’t tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the ...

A map from the Library of Congress breaks down the percentage of the slave population in Southern states, according to census data from 1860. Harris County is a light gray, whereas the surrounding ...

This map, made by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1861 using census data from 1860, shows the relative prevalence of slavery in Southern counties that year. (Click on the image or on this link to arrive ...

Slavery was not only a life-long condition; now it could be passed, like skin color, from generation to generation. In 1665, Anthony Johnson moved to Maryland and leased a 300-acre plantation ...

The U.S. Coast Survey map calculated the number of slaves in each county in the United States in 1860. Library of Congress In September of 1861, the U.S. Coast Survey published a large map ...