Floyd County, Kentucky People of Color, 1860 & 1870
Dublin Core
Title
Floyd County, Kentucky People of Color, 1860 & 1870
Subject
Kentucky; African Americans--Appalachian Region; African Americans--Southern States; African American heritage; African American slavery--Floyd County; Slave Owners--Floyd County; African American free people of color; African American families.
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 Floyd County, Kentucky 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 Floyd 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
Black in Appalachia
Source
United States Census Bureau
Publisher
Black in Appalachia
Date
1860 - 1870
Contributor
Kathleen Kelley
Rights
Items can be used for private reflection and research, and not for commercial purposes.
Collection Items
People of Color, Floyd County, Kentucky: 1860
Combined data from the 1860 Slave Schedule & the 1860 Census from Floyd County, Kentucky. The 1860 US Census for the county included the names of enslaved individuals, which is a rare occurrence in record keeping at that time. One of Three Census…
Black & Mulatto Families, Floyd County, Kentucky: 1870
1870 United States Census Records of Black & Mulatto residents in Floyd County, Kentucky