"Slave Schedules" on the census were about the slaves owned by a head of
household. Quite often the only ones he or she owned were the household
slaves. Many times they did not own male slaves for the household. Slaves
for the labor on roads and fields ..etc... were rented from the State
Government from it's inventory of slaves. There were State Owned and
County Owned slaves as well as those owned by a household.
Hannah Powell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Kilby" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] slaves
> Phebe:
>
> That is an unusual situation and one I've never encountered as a
> consistent pattern among a diverse set of slave owners. As you know, the
> names of the slaves are not given on these schedules. (This had been a
> lively debate in Congress when passing the first slave schedule act.)
> Another good source for you to check are inventories of estates which
> will provide names, in some cases even surnames, and in some cases
> relationships. While a will may have named certain slaves, more often
> than not there were several more not named. For other details, study the
> accounts of an estate to see who was sold, hired out or otherwise
> inherited by descendants. There are lots of goodies in those records
> concerning slaves. On a slightly unrelated topic, a recent survey we
> made for estate records in Lancaster County revealed that only 37.5% of
> decedents died leaving a will. In nearly every case where a person died
> with a will and named slaves, there were other slaves not named at all in
> the will.
>
> Craig Kilby
>
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:06 AM, Phebe wrote:
>
>> There are several folks on this list that have a great knowledge about
>> slavery. So I am asking if we could in a civil manner just answer one
>> question.
>>
>> In looking at the 1850 and 1860 slave census I noticed that several
>> owners did not list the men. Rather they just listed young children
>> male and female and older women.
>>
>> Now men had to be around as children are born to women at a regular
>> interval.
>>
>> Thoughts please..............
>>
>> Phebe Morgan
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