United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1860
Name index of slave schedules from the 1860 Census of the United States. Generally, the census only names the slave owner. Schedules exist for Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. The images come from NARA microfilm publication M653.
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United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1860
What is in This Collection?
The collection consists of an index & images of slave schedules listing slave owners and only age and gender of the slaves in 1860. This was the second time that slave information was captured as a separate schedule. Census enumerators created slave schedules at the same time as population schedules. The slave schedules were microfilmed along with the population schedules are and part of NARA microfilm publication M653 Eighth Census of the United States, 1860 in Record Group 29 Records of the Bureau of the Census.
Slave schedules for 1860 exist for the following and are not available for any other states:
- Alabama, rolls 27-36
- Arkansas, roll 53-54
- Delaware, roll 100
- District of Columbia, roll 105, Georgetown and City of Washington
- Florida, roll 110
- Georgia, rolls 142-153
- Kentucky, rolls 401-406
- Louisiana, rolls 427-431
- Maryland, rolls 484-485
- Mississippi, rolls 595-604
- Missouri, rolls 661-664
- North Carolina, rolls 920-927
- South Carolina, rolls 1229-1238
- Tennessee, rolls 1281-1286
- Texas, rolls 1309-1314
- Utah Territory
- Virginia, rolls 1386-1397
While nearly one-third of Southern families owned slaves, the number of slave owners named in the slave schedules is 1.7 percent of the total population (in 1860). Depending on the state, slaves numbered from less than one to nearly fifty percent of the population (12.5 percent of the total population in 1860).Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
Related Article
- Tony Burroughs. Do Slave Schedules Accurately Report Owners? National Genealogical Society Quarterly 110 #3 (September 2022):205-216. FS Library 973 B2ng
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| You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860. |
What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records:
- Name of slave owner
- Number of slaves owned
- Age, gender, and color of slave
- If slave is a fugitive, from what state
- Has slave been emancipated
- Very few schedules list the names of the slaves
Collection Content
Sample Image
1860 Slave schedule, South Carolina
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Collection Details
Location of Original Records
National Archives and Records Administration
"United States, Census (Slave Schedule), 1860." Database with images. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 22 January 2025. Citing NARA microfilm publication M653. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.
