July 10, 2015
Here's an interesting factoid for those of you discussing the Civil War and slavery about Hinds County, which contains Jackson, the capital, of course. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/mshinds.htm">It's from this link, where http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/">you can also link to a number of other Mississippi counties and see the numbers of slaves that some of the larger slave holders of the time owned. This was the scenario when "firewater" Gov. John Pettus http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/weblogs/jackblog/2015/jun/21/confederates-speak-yes-we-fought-the-civil-war-ove/">led the secession of Mississippi from here in Jackson over slavery:
According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Hinds County population included 8,940 whites, 36 "free colored" and 22,363 slaves. By the 1870 census, the white population had increased 10% to 9,829, and the "colored" population had dropped about 8% to 20,659. (As a side note, by 1960, 100 years later, the County was listed as having 112,205 whites, more than a twelve fold increase, but the 1960 total of 94,750 "Negroes"was only about four times what the colored population had been 100 years before.)
It's tough history, but important.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/addlinks.htm">Here's a list of resources to help research who owned slaves, how many, etc.
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