Lee County, Virginia People of Color, 1860 & 1870
Dublin Core
Title
Lee County, Virginia People of Color, 1860 & 1870
Subject
Census; African Americans
Description
The following lists have been compiled in order to provide free and easy access to data regarding the population of people of color in Lee County, Virginia in the years 1860 and 1870. Although Appalachia has long been considered a (nearly) exclusively white space in popular American imagination, just the opposite was, and is, true. Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865, months following the close of the Civil War. Therefore, we have chosen to compile lists of Lee County’s population of color from the census published before and after 1865. Additionally, we have included a list of slaveholders from 1860, as well as the numbers of slaves these individuals claimed on slave schedules.
Creator
United States Census Bureau
Source
Lee County Courthouse
Publisher
Black in Appalachia
Date
1860 to 1870
Contributor
Kathleen Kelley
Rights
Items can be used for private reflection and research, and not for commercial purposes.
Coverage
United States--Virginia-Lee County
