As the city population increased, so did the number of residents who held slaves.

The majority of those who held slaves had fewer than five each.

Most of them did, indeed, free slaves held in 1799 as these people grew too old to work effectively.

This is the first official record of slaves being held in the Territory.

To her husband she said, 'It would be quite improper for us to hold slaves.

Approximately one Southern family in four held slaves prior to war.

He was a slaveholder with- out the ability to hold slaves.

Indians held slaves and produced children with them, just as whites did.

As noted they held slaves, so had something in common with the people of the Confederacy.

Holding slaves is an old and quite accepted Indian custom, too.