Enslaved TexasDeborah M. Liles, Ph.D.

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Enslaved Texas

Visualizing the forced migration of enslaved people into Texas, reconstructed from voter registration records of 1867–1870.

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The 1867 to 1870 Texas voter registration: 140,073 registered voters across 125 counties, more than 50,000 of them freedmen. In 1860 the census counted 182,566 enslaved people in Texas.

Enslaved Texas