I had a genealogy query this week regarding an African American line of the Carr family. It always startles me afresh that I can't find someone in the 1860 census because they were considered property at the time, not people, due to their race. As you go back in time, the census records for African Americans slide over into the 1860 Slave Census, where individual slaves are listed under their owner's name by age and gender only. The query requested the name of Charlie Carr's father. Eleven-year-old Charlie was living with his mother Sarah in the 1870 census in Red River, Arkansas. Charlie and his parents are likely listed among the slaves owned by H A Hawkins of Red River, Arkansas in the 1860 slave census. I'm not sure how to prove it, though. (Photo is of slaves on a plantation in nearby Mississippi during the Civil War)A link to Wikipedia in all of this? Red River, Arkansas was in Sevier County until 1867, when it joined Little River County. This wasn't noted in the article on Little River County, so I added the text as well as an external link to Arkansas Formation Maps, which shows all of the changes in county designations in the State of Arkansas by year. It is a pressing need for Wikipedians to update all county articles that lack formation information.
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