26 Jun Family Tree Records- June 26, 2021
JUNETEENTH
The Galveston article above contains the exact order given by Major General Granger, that we now celebrate as Juneteenth.
The article to the left had appeared in Columbia, SC, a few days earlier and is similar.
The exhortations in the orders are, in essence, saying, you are free and equal now. The military can no longer support you in our camps. You need to figure out a way to make a living, improve yourself and your family, and be a good citizen.
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Slaveholders by state
I received a few questions on the stats shared in the previous newsletter on the percentage of slaveholder households in the slave states in the 1860 census. Here is another source, which is by state, and overall shows 26%, which is comparable to the 25%.
http://history.furman.edu › ~benson › docs › shfam60
Note: These numbers should be considered a close approximation only of the percentage of free households that held slaves. While the normal case was that only one individual per household held title to all slaves, under special circumstances, census takers sometimes counted more than one individual from a family as a separate slaveholder. On other occasions, the census taker excluded out-of-state slaveholdings. Because slaves were taxed and census marshals were government officials, under-reporting the numbers of both slaves and slaveholders were likely higher than under-reporting of free families. On balance, therefore, these error sources should cancel out.
