Better resolution https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3861e.cw0013200/Here are the counties that are over 70-80% slaves (not even counting 50-60%)Virginia>Amelia County 72.6%>Nottoway County 74.0%South Carolina>Fairfield County 70.9%>Sumter County 70.9%>Colleton County 71.8%>Beafort County 82.8%>George Town County 85.7%Georgia>Baker County 70.1%>Morgan County 70.1%>Columbia County 70.3%>Burke County 70.6%>Putnam County 70.7%>Liberty County 72.7%>Glynn County 73.0%>Dougherty County 73.4%>McIntosh County 74.0%>Camden County 76.5%Alabama>Wilcox County 72.4%>Sumter County 75.3%>Greene County 76.5%>Dallas County 76.8%>Marengo County 78.3%Mississippi>Lowndes County 70.9%>Hinds County 71.4%>Adams County 71.7%>Yazoo County 74.7%>Noxubee County 75.0%>Coahoma County 77.0%>Madison County 77.5%>Sun Flower County 78.0%>Claiborne County 78.6%>Tunica County 79.8%>Jefferson County 81.0%>Wilkinson County 82.5%>Bolivar County 86.7%>Washington County 92.3%>Issaquena 92.5%Louisiana>St. James County 70.7%>East Felinciana County 72.2%>Bossier County 73.5%>Iberville County 73.8%>W. Baton Rouge County 74.2%>Pt. Coupee County 75.9%>Carroll County 77.1%>St. Charles County 81.5%>West Felinciana County 82.5%>Madison County 88.3%>Tensas County 90.8%>Concordia County 91.0%Arkansas>Chicot County 81.3%Texas>Brazoria County 71.6%>Wharton County 80.9%Florida>Leon County 73.9%
>>18496078Weren't blacks the majority of the Deep South's population prior to the great migrations?
>>18496099Yes.
>>18496078ok now show absolute numbers
>>18496078When we almost answered the German Question.
>>18496142In 1860 the population of leon county was 12,343 individuals and 9,010.39 of those individuals at that time were slavesSouth florida was largely undeveloped at that time but there were several plantations built after Spain sold Florida to the US in 1821. Within four years, a grant of title to the north bank of the Miami River mouth was awarded to a James Egan, who had been a surveyor to the Spanish. When the land was sold in 1830, plantation slaves were introduced to MiamiRichard Fitzpatrick, a South Carolinian, bought Egan’s land and quickly established a plantation. A visitor to the region reported that Fitzpatrick’s enterprise included 50 to 60 enslaved Africans who lived in wooden hutsIt was an uncertain time, in which the settlers were at war against the Seminole Indians. In 1835 Fitzpatrick became a Colonel and went to Cuba for bloodhounds, to be used to hunt down the Seminole Indians who were now being compressed into the Everglades. The following year Fitzpatrick was elected to the state legislature was a prime mover in creating Dade CountyThe plantation was left under the control of his overseer, James Wright. When Seminoles killed a family of settlers near what is now Ft. Lauderdale, Wright got news of the attack in time to evacuate himself and the slaves. The removal of so many slaves was seen as a remarkable achievement, for the Seminoles would likely given them sanctuary. A search party sent to the river reported that Fitzpatrick’s settlement had been completely destroyed
>>18496078It’s crazy see the “Little Dixie” area in northern Missouri, so far to the north of other counties with a lot of slaves. It’s the world Mark Twain describes in his antebellum fiction and where some of my Confederate ancestors lived.
>Almost no niggers in east TN even back thenWe're still the best part of the south. Get over it.
>>18497143Mountains = less farmland = fewer slaves.It explains eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, too.
