Unknown County GaArchives History .....The American Almanac CENSUS OF 1838 / Georgia Slave Enumerations. 1840 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Francesca Henle-Taylor henle@fmfproductions.com August 7, 2004, 8:57 am The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1840 Boston: Published by David H. Williams. New York: Collins, Keese, and Company Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Company Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by David H. Williams, In the Clerk’s Office of the District of Massachusetts Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Printers to the University. ______________________________________________________________________________ CENSUS OF 1838. A census of the population of Georgia was taken, in accordance with a law of the state, in the latter part of the year 1838. The result was as follows; - whites 393,190; people of color 268,512; total 661,702; number represented 54,588. Present number of Representatives in the State legislature 207; number according to the appointment of 1831, 180. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Page 185 SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES. According to five enumerations. State. 1790 1800 1810 1820 1830 Georgia 29,264 59,404 105,218 149,656 217,531 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/unknown/history/other/gms128theameri.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb