The Fruits of
a County Research
Where on Earth is Upson County?
Upson County 1864
county population 1830-70
named in pre-1865 upson county sources
from the county project - pt I
from the county project - pt II
conclusions in upson county apply to other places?
learn about antebellum state court systems?
known records of slavery"
from Upson County Project
identify more slaves than all other records combined.
Deeds and mortgages
identify the next highest number of slaves.
All other records
account for only about 1/4 of the slaves identifiable in records
associated with Upson County (after counting each perosn once who
may be named more than once on separate but related records).
records" may be unavailable. I found only two collections of
"plantation records" from Upson County in archival
collection throughout the country, and only one of these named any
significant number of slaves.