Watauga County, North Carolina People of Color, 1860 - 1900

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North Carolina; African Americans--Appalachian Region; African Americans--Southern States; African American heritage; African American slavery--Watauga County; Slave Owners--Watauga 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 Watauga County, Tennessee in the years 1860, 1870, 1880 & 1900. These records were compiled by the Watauga County High School's History Club of Boone, North Carolina over the course of several years. Project was supervised by instructor Jamie Hickman Wilson.

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 Watauga 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.