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 ...

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 ...

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

I am amazed by the activities of Black civic leaders and politicians of the 1860s. Slavery ended in Tennessee Feb. 22, 1865, and 2,452 people in Knox County voted to abolish it. Since supporters ...

Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom By Peter Kolchin Yale University Press 568 pages ...

Though slavery was abolished in 1865, sharecropping would keep most Black Southerners impoverished and immobile for decades to come.

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 ...