Washington County, Tennessee People of Color, 1860 & 1870

Washington County, Tennessee People of Color, 1860 & 1870

Tennessee; African Americans--Appalachian Region; African Americans--Southern States; African American heritage; African American slavery--Washington County; Slave Owners--Washington County; African American free people of color; African American families.

The following lists have been compiled in order to provide free and easy access to data regarding the population of people of color in Washington 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 Washington 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.
With this County's set of data, we were also able to provide some compilations and comparisons to named and listed enslaved people that were indicated on the regular 1860 census. This information allowed for broader data comparisons unavailable in other geographic areas.

Black in Appalachia

United States Census Bureau

1860 - 1870

Kathleen Kelley

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