Blacks in Franklin County, 1860

Blacks in Franklin County owned on average less real and personal property than their counterparts in Augusta. A few black men in both places managed to gain significant wealth.

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U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census [1860]. Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth Census. Washington, D.C., 1864. U.S. Census of Population, 1860. Augusta County, Virginia and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. In U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington: National Archives and Records Administration (Augusta: Reels 1333 and 1387. Franklin: Reels 1111 and 1112).

Edward L. Ayers and William G. Thomas, III
Blacks in Franklin County, 1860
2001

"In Franklin black residents lived clustered in towns and segregated from whites, their position in the county secure only in their tightly defined communities."