This record features a comprehensive list of the identified free blacks living in Talladega County, Alabama, in 1850. The 1850 census incorporated free blacks into the standard census records, while enslaved individuals were accounted for in a separate slave census. Out of the 23 million individuals counted across the United States during the 1850 census, a mere 500,000 were recognized as free blacks.
NAME AGE SEX CLR Belamy, Cora 11 f b Belamy, Henry 16 m b Belamy, Joseph 4 m b Belamy, Laura 35 f b Belamy, Prince 13 m b Belamy, Sarah 8 f b Belamy, William 6 m b Bradford, Caleb 80 m m Ford, Jefferson 17 m m Hanes, Elizabeth 3 f m Hanes, Franklin 2 m m Hanes, George 8 m m Hanes, John 7 m m Hanes, Lee 1 m m Hanes, Martha W. 5 f m Hanes, Silva 35 f m Jacobs, Albert 14 m m Jacobs, Caroline 2 f m Jacobs, Eliza 12 f m Jacobs, Francis 6 f m Jacobs, Isaac 10 m m Jacobs, John 8 m m Jacobs, Lewis 37 m m Jacobs, Lewis 4 m m Jacobs, Mary 1 f m Jacobs, Polly 33 f m Morgan, Charles 13 m m Sumner, Albert 2 m m Sumner, Delilah 45 f b Sumner, Francis 9 f m Sumner, James A. 7 m m Sumner, John 5 m m Sumner, Joseph 17 m m Sumner, Lucinda 12 f m Sumner, Sarah 20 f m Sumner, Susan 14 f m