As more Confederate monuments were being removed in the South this month, an old claim seeking to downplay the extent of slave ownership began to recirculate online. Data archived from the 1860 census ...

The congressional guidelines for the 1860 census were the same as for the 1850 census. The census day was June 1, 1860, and the “census year” included the 12 months preceding census day. The census ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article re-examines the 1860 census for Savannah Georgia. It melds the free and slave census to gain insights into slave ownership, ...

RALEIGH N.C., April 23 -- A renegade census taker charged with recording the population of a tiny northeastern North Carolina county in 1860 left behind a record of slave names that is the only such ...

FRESNO, Calif. This is what the census form looked like in 1860 when the first census was conducted in the newly incorporated Fresno County. "There were 4623 people within the county boundaries in ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

There were 3,929,214 people (including slaves, but not untaxed Indians) in the U.S. in 1790, when Thomas Jefferson ran off the first census. Seventeen censuses later, the U.S. population figures to ...