Note 59 — Chapter VI · THE OLD-TIME NEGRO
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In Georgia, for example, as shown by the investigation of Professor Du Bois, one of the best educated and trained colored men in the South, there were, in 1860, 455,698 negroes and 591,550 whites. Of these, there were 3,500 free negroes and 462,195 slaves owned by 40,773 slave-holders, or about 10½ to each slave-holder.
Of these slave-holders,
16 per cent. of all 6,713 owned 1 slave.
10 ” ” 4,353 ” 2 slaves.
8 ” ” 3,482 ” 3 ”
2,984 ” 4 ”
2,543 ” 5 ”
2,213 ” 6 ”
1,839 ” 7 ”
1,647 ” 8 ”
1,415 ” 9 ”
4,707 ” 10 or under 15 slaves.
2,523 ” 15 ” 20 ”
2,910 ” 20 ” 30 ”
1,400 ” 30 ” 40 ”
739 ” 40 ” 50 ”
729 ” 50 ” 70 ”
373 ” 70 ” 100 ”
181 ” 100 ” 200 ”
23 ” 200 ” 300 ”
7 ” 300 ” 500 ”
1 ” 500 ” 1,000 ”
From this table it will be seen that 6,713, or about 16½ per cent., owned only one slave, 10½ per cent. owned only two slaves, and 50 per cent. owned five slaves or fewer, while 66 per cent. (27,191) owned under ten slaves; 1,102 owned between fifty and one hundred, and but 212 owned over one hundred, while only twenty-three owned over two hundred.