James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery

Appendix: Charts and Tables

Appendix Charts and Tables This page intentionally left blank Chart 1 Sex and Age Pyramid of Hammond's Slaves, 1831 Chart 2 Crude Death Rate of Hammond's Slaves (Five-Year Averages) Chart 3 Crude Birth Rate of Hammond's Slaves (Five-Year Averages) Chart 4 Birth-to-Death Ratio of Hammond's Slaves (Five-Year Averages) Chart 5 Child Mortality Among Hammond's Slaves Chart 6 Sex and Age Pyramid of Hammond's Slaves, 1850 Chart 7 Sex and Age Pyramid of Hammond's Slaves, 1860 and 1864—Wartime Changes Chart 8 The Changing Size of Hammond's Slave Force Note: The dots placed off actual date lines represent counts made by Hammond at times other than the hetfinnin<: ot rhe year. Chart 9 Number of Children Under Ten per Thousand Women Ages Fifteen to Forty-nine Chart 10 Cotton-Corn Ratio at Silver Bluff in Acres Planted Source: At^resate Jala from Richard H. Steckei, "Slave Mortaliry, Analysis of Evidence from Planranon Records," Social Snfna- Hislorv, III (October, 1979), 86-114, and Richard H. Sreckc-1, "The Economics of U.S. Slave and Southern Whire Fertility" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1977). Chart 11 Per-Acre Cotton Productivity at Silver Bluff Chart 12 Per-Acre Corn Productivity at Silver Bluff Chart 13 Cotton and Corn Acreage at Silver Bluff Table 1 Kinship Naming Patterns Among Hammond's Slaves N = 51 Namesake Percentage Father 17 Mother 3 Grandfather 1 1 Paternal 5 Maternal 6 Grandmother 10 Paternal 3 Maternal 6 Unspecified 1 Maternal uncle 2 Maternal aunt 2 Paternal aunt 1 Deceased sibling 2 Mother's maiden name 1 Maternal grandmother's maiden name 1 Maternal cousin 1 Summary Named for paternal relatives 26 Named for maternal relatives 22 Other 3 Table 2 Hammond's Agricultural Wealth 1850 Improved acreage 3,000 Unimproved acreage 7,000 Total acreage 10,000 Cash value $100,000 Value of farm implements and machines $5,000 Value of livestock $8,000 Number of cattle 130 Number of pigs 360 Number of mules 32 Number of horses 22 Bales of ginned cotton 160 Bushels of corn 11,500 33.3 5.9 21.6 9.9 11.8 19.7 5.9 11.8 2.0 3.9 3.9 2.0 3.9 2.0 2.0 2.0 50.98 43.13 5.88 Percentage I860 Change 9,100 +203.0 2,360 -66.0 11,460 +14.6 $255,000 +155.0 $3,000 -40.0 $16,400 +105.0 154 +18.5 595 +65.0 22 -31.2 51 +132.0 315 +96.9 63,000 +447.8 ...