from
Frontier to Suburbia
by Charles Poland,

An excerpt from pages 131-133,
with permission from the author.

Distribution of Slave Ownership in Loudoun in 1860
Number of Owners
Size of Slaveholding
124
84
61
83
46
39
35
27
22
80
36
23
4
4
1
1

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10-14
15-19
20-29
30-39
40-49
50-69
100-199

From: Head, The History of Loudoun County, p. 85.

Charles Poland writes that between 1800 and 1860 Loudoun County’s total population fluctuated between 20,000 and 22,000. Poland notes that in 1860, according to the U.S. Census, there were 670 slaveholders in Loudoun County. In that year, the U.S. Census recorded 5,501 slaves in Loudoun, while free blacks numbered 1,252.