Embedded Files
Life on a Cotton Plantation:
Document 17: Map of Enslaved Population, United States, 1860
Document 17: Map of Enslaved Population, United States, 1860
This map depicts the number of enslaved people in the United States in 1860.
In 1860, the final census taken before the Civil War showed the following population numbers:
Free States: 18,279,591
Slave States (free people): 9,902,988
Slave States (enslaved people): 4,000,000
Text-Dependent Questions
Text-Dependent Questions
What story is the map telling?
Where are the largest concentrations of enslaved people?
Discussion Questions
Discussion Questions
Compare the 1860 population data with Document 8a, a summary of the population in 1850. How do the numbers in Document 8a compare with the population representations in this map? What has changed – or not changed – in 10 years? How might any changes have affected congressional representation?
CitationMap: Lincoln Mullen, "The Spread of U.S. Slavery, 1790–1860," interactive map, https://lincolnmullen.com/projects/slavery/, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.9825. Data: U.S. Census, 1860, https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1864/dec/1860a.html
Page updated
Report abuse