The Differences Slavery Made: A Close Analysis of Two American Communities

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Diary

The Reverend Abraham Essick, Diary, 1849-1864

Alansa Rounds Sterrett, Memoir, undated

Joseph Addison Waddell, Diary, October 15, 1856

Alexander K. McClure, Old Time Notes of Pennsylvania, 1905

Graph

Profitability of Business Sectors, 1860 (graph)

Acres of Farm Land, 1860 (graph)

Cash Value of Farms Per Capita Comparison, 1850 and 1860 (graph)

Annual Value of Manufacturing Per Capita, 1860 (graph)

Total Population as a Percentage of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1860 (graph)

Free Blacks as a Percentage of Total Population, 1860 (graph)

Slave Population Comparison, 1860 (graph)

Percentage Increase in Total Population, 1860 (graph)

Letter

J. H. Cochran, J. H. Cochran to Mother, October 8, 1860

Lucas P. Thompson, Lucas P. Thompson to John H. McCue, November 1, 1860

John B. McPherson, John B. McPherson to Edward McPherson, November 9, 1860

C. Alexander, C. Alexander to John H. McCue, December 18, 1858

F. Davis, F. Davis to John H. McCue, September 5, 1859

G. W. Imboden, G. W. Imboden to John H. McCue, April 12, 1860

W. J. D. Bell, J. D. Bell to John H. McCue, April 21, 1860

Maria Perkins, Maria Perkins to Richard Perkins, October 8, 1852

J. Beck, J. Beck to John H. McCue, February 8, 1858

W. W. Gibbs, W. W. Gibbs to John H. McCue, December 18, 1858

E. H. Wills, E. H. Wills to John H. McCue, March 25, 1857

C. T. Wills, C. T. Wills to John H. McCue, December 7, 1853

William S. Eskridge, William S. Eskridge to John H. McCue, May 21, 1858

Jonathan G. Coleman, Jonathan G. Coleman to John H. McCue, May 29, 1859

John G. Imboden, John G. Imboden to John H. McCue, November 13, 1859

William S. Garvin, William S. Garvin to Simon Cameron, January 24, 1861

C. Alexander, C. Alexander to John H. McCue, December 12, 1859

Alexander H. H. Stuart, Alexander H. H. Stuart to Reverend W. G. Brownlow, August 18, 1856

John G. Imboden, Letter to John H. McCue, December 3, 1860

Map

Augusta County, Va., Churches and Schools (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Churches and Schools (map)

Augusta County, Va., Soil Types (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Soil Types (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Agricultural Production (map)

Augusta County, Va., Agricultural Production (map)

Augusta County, Va., Elevation (map)

Augusta County, Va., Election of 1860 (map)

Augusta County, Va., Rivers (map)

Augusta County, Va., Railroads and Roads (map)

Augusta County, Va., Towns (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Elevation (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Election of 1860 (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Rivers (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Railroads and Roads (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Towns (map)

Augusta County, Va., Churches and Voting Precincts (map)

Franklin County, Pa., Churches and Voting Precincts (map)

Comparison, Churches and Schools (map)

Comparison, Rivers (map)

Comparison, Railroads and Roads (map)

Comparison, Towns (map)

Comparison, Elevation (map)

Comparison, Soils (map)

Comparison, Agricultural Production (map)

Franklin County Town, Fannettsburg (map)

Franklin County Town, Greencastle (map)

Augusta County Town, Parnassus (map)

Augusta County Town, Waynesborough (map)

Augusta County Town, Lebanon White Sulpher Springs (map)

Franklin County Town, Pleasant Hall (map)

Augusta County, Va., Residences with Slavery (map)

Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1856 Election (map)

Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1860 Election (map)

Newspaper

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Crop Production, 1859, July 13, 1859

Franklin Repository and Transcript, Crop Production, 1860, July 18, 1860

Staunton Spectator, The Late Slave Murder Case, October 16, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Desperate Negro Woman, January 11, 1861

Staunton Spectator, A Sensible Negro, September 25, 1860

Franklin Repository, A Native African, February 22, 1860

Franklin Repository, The Bark James W. Page, September 14, 1859

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, A Good Idea, April 20, 1859

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Court Week, April 20, 1859

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, How Our Negroes Live, March 30, 1859

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, A White Heiress Elopes with a Negro, January 19, 1859

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, A Row, February 16, 1859

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Save the Union, January 25, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Food for Mercantile Digestion, February 1, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, White Slavery in England, April 18, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Jefferson and the Black Republicans, May 9, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Slave Labor in Charleston [sic], May 16, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, The Folly of Dividing the Democratic Party about Abstractions, May 16, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, The Slavery Question in Congress, July 25, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Slavery in the Territories--The Democratic Doctrine, October 3, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, The Course Lincoln Will Pursue, October 10, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, The True Doctrine, October 24, 1860

Chambersburg Valley Spirit, Black Republicanism is Nullification, October 31, 1860

Franklin Repository, Slavery in Nebraska , February 1, 1860

Franklin Repository, The Nigger Democracy, March 7, 1860

Franklin Repository, Is Poverty a Crime, April 11, 1860

Franklin Repository, Equal Rights in the Territories, July 18, 1860

Franklin Repository, Mr. Breckinridge as a Logician, July 18, 1860

Franklin Repository, The Necessary Consequence, July 18, 1860

Franklin Repository, Address of the Republican Executive Committee of Maryland, August 1, 1860

Franklin Repository, The Work of the Campaign, August 1, 1860

Franklin Repository, Important Southern Testimony, August 1, 1860

Franklin Repository, How Slaves Drive Out Free Labor, August 1, 1860

Franklin Repository, Douglas Deprecating Agitation, August 8, 1860

Franklin Repository, Electoral Votes of the States, August 8, 1860

Franklin Repository, The End of Slavery Agitation, August 15, 1860

Franklin Repository, Republicans Not Innovators, August 22, 1860

Franklin Repository, Let Us Alone, August 22, 1860

Franklin Repository, Morton McMichael's Speech, September 12, 1860

Franklin Repository, What Republicans Intend to Do, September 12, 1860

Franklin Repository, Playing 'Possum, October 10, 1860

Staunton Spectator, Hostile Legislation, January 10, 1860

Staunton Spectator, Civil, Not Sectional War, January 24, 1860

Staunton Spectator, State of the Country, January 31, 1860

Staunton Spectator, Democracy and Slavery, February 7, 1860

Staunton Spectator, The Position of Mr. Bates, April 3, 1860

Staunton Spectator, The Trouble at C[h]arleston, May 8, 1860

Staunton Spectator, Another Division in the M. E. Church Expected, June 12, 1860

Staunton Spectator, John Bell's Slavery Record, October 2, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, The Results of African Labor in the New World, February 10, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Cotton and American Slavery, February 24, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Methodist General Conference, May 18, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, The Protection of Slavery in the Territories, June 29, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, For the Vindicator, July 13, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, For the Vindicator, September 7, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Judicial Protection in the Territories, September 28, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Departure of Emancipated Negroes--Don't Want to Leave, October 14, 1859

Staunton Spectator, Export of Slaves from Virginia, October 11, 1859

Valley Spirit, The Negro Government of the Black Republicans--Ohio Election, November 7, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Untitled, November 2, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Judge Douglas in Staunton, September 7, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, October 9, 1860

Staunton Vindicator, Some Supporters of Judge Douglas, February 8, 1861

Staunton Vindicator, Untitled, March 29, 1861

Franklin Repository, Strike for Freedom, May 5, 1860

Table

Population of Cities and Towns, 1860 (table)

Real Estate and Personal Estate Valuation, 1860 (table)

Value of Manufacturing, 1860 (table)

School and Literacy, 1850 (table)

Wealth and Slaveholding Correlations (table)

Agricultural Productivity, Augusta and Franklin County, 1860 (table)

Wheat and Corn Production in Dollars (table)

Agricultural Production, Franklin and Augusta Counties, 1860, by Percentages (table)

Distances to Major Institutions (table)

Politics, Franklin County, 1860 Presidential Voting by Precinct (table)

Politics, Franklin County, 1860 Presidential Election Precinct Comparison (table)

Politics, Franklin County, High Lincoln Precincts in the 1860 Presidential Election (table)

Politics, Franklin County, High Breckinridge Precincts in the 1860 Presidential Election (table)

Politics, Franklin County, High Douglas Precincts in the 1860 Presidential Election (table)

Politics, Franklin County, Party Activists, 1859-60 (table)

Land Values in Augusta and Franklin Counties (table)

Wheat and Corn Production by Household Wealth (table)

Comparative Stores and Establishments Per Capita, Augusta and Franklin (table)

Politics, Augusta County, 1860 Presidential Election Voting by Precinct (table)

Politics, Augusta County, High Breckinridge Precincts in the 1860 Presidential Election (table)

Politics, Augusta County, High Douglas Precincts in the 1860 Presidential Election (table)

Politics, Augusta County, High Bell Precincts in the 1860 Presidential Election (table)

Politics, Augusta County, Party Activists, 1859-60 (table)

Politics, Augusta County, 1860 Presidential Election Candidates and Precincts (table)

Politics, Augusta County, Slaveholding and Precinct Crosstabulation (table)

Property Holding of Heads of Household (table)

Slaveholders and Soil Quality (table)

Slaveholders and Agricultural Productivity Correlations (table)

Slaveholders and Agricultural Productivity (table)

Soil Types (table)

Capital Investment by Industry, 1860 (table)

Industries Using Enslaved Labor (table)

African American Residence by Town, Franklin County, 1860 (table)

Denominational Statistics for Augusta and Franklin Counties (table)

Political Activists in Augusta and Franklin Counties (table)

Occupations in Augusta and Franklin, 1860 (table)

Free Blacks in Augusta County, 1860 (table)

Blacks in Franklin County, 1860 (table)

Women in Augusta County, 1860 (table)

Women in Franklin County, 1860 (table)

Slaveowners and Employers, Augusta County, 1860 (table)

Laborers in Augusta and Franklin, 1860 (table)

Party Affiliation, Augusta County (table)

Party Affiliation, Franklin County (table)

Regional Comparison (table)

Hiring of Enslaved Persons, Augusta County, 1860 (table)

Road Networks, Franklin and Augusta Counties, 1860 (table)

Franklin County Churches and Voting Precincts (table)

Churches and Voting Precincts, Augusta (table)

Age and Party Affiliation, and Precinct Voting in 1860, Augusta County (table)

Age and Party Affiliation, and Precinct Voting in 1860, Franklin County (table)

Town and Rural Distribution of Household Wealth (table)

Newspaper Classified Ads by Business Type (table)

Newspaper Article Reprints by Region (table)

Election Returns in Augusta, Franklin, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, 1860 (table)

National Election Returns, 1860 (table)

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