Census Bureau's "By Decade" website
Includes a variety of publications, questionnaires, datasets, and more
Highlights
Questions asked (see questionnaire)
Age, sex, race, married in past year, free or slave, number of slaves, deaf, blind, insane, feeble-minded, pauper, convict, literacy, school attendance, place of birth, occupation, value of real estate and personal property, number of slave houses
For more information:
Find all 1860 census publications in the Library.
Key publications:
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Population of the United States in 1860 |
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Agriculture of the United States in 1860 |
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Manufactures of the United States in 1860 |
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Statistics of the United States in 1860 |
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Preliminary report on the Eighth Census, 1860 |
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Map showing, in five degrees of density, the distribution, within the territory east of the 100th Meridian, of the population of the United States, (excluding Indians not taxed) [electronic resource] : compiled from the returns of population at the Eighth census of the United States |