Southern Farms Study, 1860 Parker, William N. Gallman, Robert E. agricultural census agricultural land agricultural production agricultural workers agriculture Antebellum South (USA) crops economic conditions farms livestock rural population slave labor slavery Southern United States RCMD.VI DSDR.VI ICPSR.IV.C This study presents 1860 data on population and farm production in 5,228 farms located in 405 major cotton-producing counties in the South. The data was compiled from the agriculture, slave, and population schedules of the 1860 United States manuscript Census. For each farm, variables describing farm land, machinery, crops, and livestock are included, as well as production figures for specific crops and types of livestock on the farm. The population variables tabulate the free and slave residents of each farm by sex, race, and age in five- or ten-year categories. 1992-02-16 census/enumeration data 7419 10.3886/ICPSR07419.v1 Schedules 1 (free population), 2 (slave population), and 4 (agricultural production) of the 1860 manuscript U.S. Census United States 1860 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).