Slave state slave owner statistics

 According to the 1860 census there were 8,036,700 White males in the fifteen slave-owning states. We know that minors also were not allowed by state laws to own property and any rare example one could find of a slave-owning minor would not alter the statistics one bit. The census is broken down into age groups of ten year increments where the first aged group that includes adult White males also list 20 year olds and the age groups continue incrementally up to the final group which include all White males of 100 years of age and older. So in effect, I am including all White males of the fifteen slave-owning states of the age 20 or older in this breakdown of individual slave ownership.

The Border States:

Delaware: 22,429 adult White males
587 slave-owners
2.6% of adult White Delaware males owned slaves

Maryland: 128,370 adult White males
13,783 slave-owners
10.7% of adult White Maryland males owned slaves

Kentucky: 217,766 adult White males
38,645 slave-owners
17.7% of adult White Kentucky males owned slaves

Missouri: 267,789 adult White males
24,320 slave-owners
9.0% of adult White Missouri males owned slaves

Overall, 10% of the adult White males of the Border states were slave-owners.



The Upper Southern States:

Virginia: 245,683 adult White males
52,128 slave-owners
21.2% of adult White Virginia males owned slaves

North Carolina: 143,149 adult White males
34,658 slave owners
24.2% of adult White North Carolina males owned slaves

Tennessee: 189,126 adult White males
36,844 slave-owners
19.5% of adult White Tennessee males owned slaves

Arkansas:
73,741 adult White males
11,481 slave-owners
15.6% of adult White Arkansas males owned slaves

Overall, 20.2% of all Upper Southen state adult White males owned slaves.




The Lower Southern States:

South Carolina: 68,003 adult White males
26,701 slave-owners
39.2% of adult White South Carolina males owned slaves

Georgia: 132,317 adult White males
41,084 slave-owners
31.0% of adult White Georgia males owned slaves

Alabama: 118,526 adult White males
33,730 slave-owners
28.5% of adult White Alabama males owned slaves

Mississippi: 83,108 adult White males
30,943 slave-owners
37.2% of adult White Mississippi males owned slaves

Louisiana: 98,143 adult White males
22,033 slave-owners
22.4% of adult White Louisiana males owned slaves

Florida: 59,815 adult White males
5,152 slave-owners
8.6% of adult White Florida males owned slaves

Texas: 106,070 adult White males
21,878 slave-owners
20.6% of adult White Texas males owned slaves

Overall, 26.7% of all adult White males of the lower Southen States owned slaves.