Wise County, Virginia People of Color, 1860 & 1870

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Title

Wise County, Virginia People of Color, 1860 & 1870

Subject

Virginia; African Americans--Appalachian Region; African Americans--Southern States; African American heritage; African American slavery--Wise County; Slave Owners--Wise 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 Wise 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 Wise 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

Free People of Color, Wise County, Virginia: 1860
1860 United States Census Records of Free People of Color in Wise County, Virginia.

Slave Schedule, Wise County, Virginia: 1860
1860 United States Slave Schedule of Wise County, Virginia.

Families of Color, Wise County, Virginia: 1870
1870 United States Census Records of Black & Mulatto residents in Wise County, Virginia.
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