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Title: The Free Black Population of Columbia, South Carolina in 1860: A Snapshot of Occupation and Personal Wealth

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF FREE BLACKS IN URBAN SOUTH Carolina, Charleston has received nearly all the attention of historians.1 And understandably so. Charleston, a major port on the Atlantic coast, was the South's second largest city in 1860 and the state's only large city. It had a large free black population (3,237) and was home to approximately one third of the state's free black population of 9,914. With a population of just over forty thousand people, Charleston was roughly five times the size of Columbia, the state capital. As urban geographer Allan Pred notes, "only 1.3 per cent of the state's 1860 population outside Charleston was officially recognized as urban by census takers." Indeed, Columbia was the only other city or town in South Carolina to qualify as urban according to the census's definition of that term (a population greater than twenty-five hundred).

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27570610?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

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Authors: Stowell, David O.

Periodical (Full): The South Carolina Historical Magazine

Issue: 1

Volume: 104

Pages: 6-24

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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