Virginia 1850 and 1860, an Amherst County Index to the U.S. Slave Schedule

Author
Not available
Publisher
Heritage Books
Published
20121212
ISBN
9780788452765
ISBN registration area
English-language area (ISBN 978-0)

Description

This index offers an efficient method of finding slave owners in the Amherst County, Virginia, slave schedules of 1850 and 1860. It covers 591 slave owners in alphabetical order for 1850 and 701 for 1860. In 1850, the total population count for Amherst County was 12,699 and its slave count was 5,953 (2,981 males and 2,972 females). In 1860, the total population for Amherst County had increased to 13,742 with a slave count of 6,278 (3,240 males and 3,038 females).