Scholars have published detailed census data on enslaved population demographics in Indian Territory

Evidence

  1. Michael F. Doran, “Negro Slaves of the Five Civilized Tribes,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 68 (September 1978): 335–50, 346, table 2; and Michael F. Doran, “Population Statistics of Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory,” Chronicles of Oklahoma 53 (Winter 1975–76): 492–515, 501, table 3. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1781