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Lockley, Timothy James (2014) Slaveholders and slaves in Savannah's 1860 census. Urban History, 41 (4). pp. 647-663. doi:10.1017/S0963926814000121 ISSN 0963-9268.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963926814000121
Abstract
This article re-examines the 1860 census for Savannah Georgia. It melds the free and slave census to gain insights into slave ownership, owners’ occupations and makes tentative suggestions as to slave occupations. It argues that the concentration of slaveholding among a minority of locally born residents explains both the tensions evident in white society during the 1850s and actions taken to ease them. It also demonstrates that the widely used data for the number of urban slaves in Savannah overstates the actual number by c. 20 per cent. The census thus complicates our understanding of the vitality of late antebellum urban slavery.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | E History America > E151 United States (General) | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History > Comparative American Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Savannah (Tenn.) -- Slavery -- Census, Savannah (Tenn.) -- Slaves -- Social conditions, Savannah (Tenn.) -- Slaveholders, Savannah (Tenn.) -- Plantation owners, Tennessee -- Social conditions -- To 1865, Tennessee -- African Americans -- History | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Urban History | ||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0963-9268 | ||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 41 | ||||
Number: | 4 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 647-663 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0963926814000121 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 May 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 23 May 2016 |
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