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

It felt like a kick in the stomach. Exploring an ancestry website, I discovered an 1860 Slave Schedule showing that my great-great-grandfather, William Henry Robertson of Mason County, Kentucky ...

Community activists with ancestral ties to enslaved people at Louisiana plantations are using a unique legal theory to gain ...

Any credible threat to the continuation of slavery would cause slave prices to decline, reducing the wealth of Southern slave holders. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 represented such a ...

Reuters explores what the ancestral connections to slavery mean to presidents, governors, members of Congress and Supreme Court justices -- and to Americans themselves.

Either the opponents of Slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates ...

By the 1850s and 1860s, Campbell was the largest slave dealer in Maryland, and that was when his name began appearing in Carroll County records.

Census of 1860 Population-Effect on the Representation of the Free and Slave States.

It felt like a kick in the stomach. Exploring an ancestry website, I discovered an 1860 Slave Schedule showing that my great-great-grandfather, William Henry Robertson of Mason County, Kentucky ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook. As we previously reported, this ...