1850 Slave Schedule for Benjamin S. Arnold

Source: 1850 Kentucky Census, Franklin County, p. 489

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The 1850 slave schedule was created in conjunction with the regular 1850 census. (The same was done in 1860.) It provided the following information:

• Name of slave owner
• Number of slaves
• Age of slave
• Sex of slave
• Color of slave (B=Black and M=Mulatto)
• Whether a slave is a fugitive from the state
• Number of slaves manumitted (freed from slavery)
• Whether deaf and dumb, blind, insane or idiotic

Benjamin S. Arnold:

• Black female, 20 years old
• Black female, 4 years old
• Mulatto male, 1 year old