1860 Census | House Divided

United States of America, 1857, zoomable map

The 1860 Census revealed the United States to be truly a "house divided," providing demographic and economic information that illustrated the growing gap between northern free labor society and the slave culture of the South. (By Matthew Pinsker)

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United States of America

Documents

Date	Title
04/30/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Southern Press," April 30, 1857
03/11/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “A Hand Writing on the Wall,” March 11, 1859
08/18/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “The Next Census,” August 18, 1859
02/17/1860	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Census,” February 17, 1860
05/11/1860	Newark (OH) Advocate, “How Mr. Buchanan’s Patronage Is Dispensed in Ohio,” May 11, 1860
06/10/1860	New York Herald, “The Mode of Taking the Census,” June 10, 1860
03/10/1861	New York Herald, “Causes of Excessive Mortality in New York and Brooklyn,” March 10, 1861

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United States and its Territories, 1853

United States of America, 1857, zoomable map