Jefferson County, Tennessee People of Color, 1860 & 1870
Dublin Core
Title
Jefferson County, Tennessee People of Color, 1860 & 1870
Subject
Tennessee; African Americans--Appalachian Region; African Americans--Southern States; African American heritage; African American slavery--Jefferson County; Slave Owners--Jefferson 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 Jefferson County, Tennessee 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 Jefferson 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, Jefferson County, Tennessee: 1860
1860 United States Census Records of Free People of Color in Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Slave Schedule, Jefferson County, Tennessee: 1860
1860 United States Slave Schedule of Jefferson County, Tennessee.
Families of Color, Jefferson County, Tennessee: 1870
1870 United States Census Records of Black, Mulatto & Indigenous residents in Jefferson County, Tennessee.