Thousands of Black people were enslaved by Native Americans in 1860.
Evidence
- This estimated figure is 8,300 Blacks enslaved by Native Americans in the year 1860, just before the Civil War broke out. It is derived from Doran, “Population Statistics of Nineteenth-Century Indian Territory,” 501, table 3. Quintard Taylor gives this number as 7,000, also citing Doran’s chart as a source; Quintard Taylor, In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528–1990 (New York: Norton, 1999), Kindle loc. 675. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 1806
Categorization
- XREF: The dispute over 8,300 vs 7,000 is another example of contested empirical specifics under the reframing thesis, useful for the reader’s taxonomy of claims.
- QUESTION: Which figure does the current scholarly consensus favor, and why did the two citations diverge from the same chart?