Slave States (Confederate) 1860.
Total Farms...494,500
Total cash value...$1,865,600,000
Slave States (Confederate) 1870.
Total Farms...691,500
Total cash value...$976,800,000
Here we see an increase in the number of farms by 39.8% but a decline in total cash value of 47.6%! This could be assumed to be the result of losing slave property values due to the end of the system. However, if we compare the slave states of the Union we see something totally different.
Slave States (Union) 1860.
Total Farms...203,800
Total cash value...$699,400,000
Slave States (Union) 1870.
Total Farms...301,300
Total cash value...$921,100,000
Here we see an increase in the number of farms by 32.3%, almost the same as the ex-Confederate slave states, but unlike the slave states of the Confederacy, the Union slave states saw an increase in total cash value of their farms of 24%. Where is the loss in slave property values? Those Union slave states had a combined slave population of over 429,000.
The ex-Confederate states farms were well over double in number of their Union counterpart but almost equal in total cash value!
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David Upton