TABLE 13.1 Percent of Slaveholders and Planters in Southern Legislatures, 1860
LEGISLATURESLAVEHOLDERSPLANTERS*
North Carolina85.8%36.6%
South Carolina81.755.4
Alabama76.340.8
Mississippi73.449.5
Georgia71.629.0
Virginia67.324.2
Tennessee66.014.0
Louisiana63.823.5
Kentucky60.6?8.4
Florida55.420.0
Texas54.118.1
Maryland53.419.3
Arkansas42.013.0
Missouri41.2?5.3
*Planters: Owned 20 or more slaves.

Date source: Adapted from Ralph A. Wooster, The People in Power: Courthouse and Statehouse in the Lower South, 1850–1860, page 40. Copyright © 1975 by Ralph A. Wooster. Courtesy of the University of Tennessee Press.