Leon County, 1860: 9,089 enslaved, 3,194 white (Leon County, 1860–1870)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet proven
Year: 1860 · Places: Florida, Europe
SUMMARYLeon County, 1860: 9,089 enslaved, 3,194 white (Leon County, 1860–1870) [Connections: Tallahassee & Orlando, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDA genealogy transcription of the 1860 census for Leon County gives White 3,194; Free colored 60; Slaves 9,089; and for 1870, White 2,895; "Colored" 12,341. Wikipedia's plantations article states that in 1860, 73% of the county's population was enslaved (citing Rivers 1981), that Leon County had the most enslaved people in Florida, and that Tallahassee was "the center of the slave trade in Florida" (Smith 1973). The largest holdings in 1860 included Burgesstown (274 people) and La Grange (232)
PATTERNThree out of four people in the capital's county were held in slavery; in 1870 people counted "colored" outnumbered whites more than four to one
LENS (WW9)The capital county was a Black-majority county: these are historically Black places by the government's own count
OPENThe transcription also reports 5,532 in the slave schedule, which conflicts with 9,089; check the official 1860 census volume. Whether any enslaved people in Leon County were of Native descent needs deep research
SOURCELeon County, Florida census figures (RootsWeb); Plantations of Leon County (Wikipedia).