America's Civil War: Border States' Population, 1860

America's Civil War History 393 Tables Professor John C. Willis

1860 Population Distribution of the Border Slaveholding States *

	WHITE	SLAVE	FREE BLACK **	TOTAL
DELAWARE	90,589 (80.7%)	1,798 (1.6%)	19,829 (17.7%)	112,216
KENTUCKY	919,484 (79.6%)	225,483 (19.5%)	10,684 (0.9%)	1,155,651
MARYLAND	515,918 (75.1%)	87,189 (12.7%)	83,942 (12.2%)	687,049
MISSOURI	1,063,489 (90.0%)	114,931 (9.7%)	3,572 (0.3%)	1,181,992
TOTAL	2,589,480 (82.5%)	429,401 (13.7%)	118,027 (3.8%)	3,136,908

* All percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth.
** Includes all free persons of African descent.

SOURCE: U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census [1860], Population, Washington, D.C., 1864.

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