Harlan County Slave Schedule 1850

Date: 1850 to 1850
Location: Harlan, Kentucky, United States

Surnames/tags: Ledford Skidmore Howard Brittain Caywood Kelly Slavery

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Search is incomplete on Family Search. Pieced together from other sources. Harlan had few slaves ^[1]

48 enslaved people of Harlan County:

Garrett, William 9
Kelly, Jonathan. 5
Ledford, Aley Sr. 13
Skidmore, John. 2
Howard, James G. 1
Brittain, C.B. 5
Brittain, Nancy 5
Caywood, Nancy 5
Name unknown 3

1850 Slave Schedule

29 slave owners 71 Black slaves 52 Mulatto slaves 3 free Blacks [last name Bailey] 34 free Mulattoes [most with last names Smith or Sturgeon] ^[2]

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1860 Slave Schedule

0 slave owners 0 Black slaves 0 Mulatto slaves 1 free Black [Elizabeth Coffman] 12 free Mulattoes [most with last name Bailey; other last names included Beaty, Coffman, and Glasgow]

Sources

https://www.kykinfolk.org/kyafamer/Harlan/1850ss.htm

“Harlan County (KY) Slaves, Free Blacks, and Free Mulattoes, 1850-1870,” Notable Kentucky African Americans Database, accessed June 17, 2022, https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/1397.

Harlan County Slave Schedule 1850

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