====================================================================== | Whites | Slave |Per Cent | Slaves | Average per | | | holders |of Whites | | Holder | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Alabama | 426,514| 29,295 | 6.8 | 342,844| 11.6 | Arkansas | 162,189| 5,999 | 3.7 | 47,100| 7.8 | Florida | 47,203| 3,520 | 7.4 | 39,310| 11.1 | Georgia | 521,572| 38,456 | 7.3 | 381,622| 9.9 | Kentucky | 761,413| 38,385 | 5.0 | 210,981| 5.4 | Louisiana | 255,491| 20,670 | 8.0 | 244,809| 11.4 | Maryland | 417,943| 16,040 | 3.8 | 90,368| 5.6 | Mississippi | 295,718| 23,116 | 7.8 | 309,878| 13.4 | Missouri | 592,004| 19,185 | 3.2 | 87,422| 4.5 | North Carolina| 553,028| 28,303 | 5.1 | 288,548| 10.2 | South Carolina| 274,563| 25,596 | 9.3 | 384,984| 15.0 | Tennessee | 756,836| 33,864 | 4.4 | 239,459| 7.0 | Texas | 154,034| 7,747 | 5.2 | 58,161| 7.5 | Virginia | 894,800| 55,063 | 6.1 | 472,528| 8.5 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Among the fourteen real slaveholding States of the Union Kentucky stood ninth in the number of slaves in 1850, but was third in the number of slave owners and with the exception of Missouri had less slaves for each owner than any other State. From the third column of this table, however, we are rather surprised to find that not only in Missouri but in Arkansas, Maryland and Tennessee the number of slaveholders was smaller in proportion to the total white population than in Kentucky. Value of Slaves at Value of Real and Personal Property $400 per Head Less the Value of Slaves Alabama $137,137,600 $ 81,066,732 Arkansas 18,840,000 21,001,025 Florida 15,724,000 7,474,734 Georgia 152,672,800 182,752,914 Kentucky 84,392,400 217,236,056 Louisiana 97,923,600 136,075,164 Maryland 36,147,200 183,070,164 Mississippi 123,951,200 105,000,000 Missouri 34,968,800 102,278,907 North Carolina 115,419,200 111,381,272 South Carolina 153,993,600 134,264,094 Tennessee 95,783,600 111,671,104 Texas 23,264,400 32,097,940 Virginia 189,011,200 202,634,638