Editing Issaquena County, Mississippi (section)

===Slavery===
In 1860,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860 |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3861e.cw0013200/?r=0.325,0.35,0.215,0.107,0 |website=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> 92.5% of Issaquena County's total population were [[Slavery in the United States|enslaved people]], the highest concentration anywhere in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Tom |year=2001 |title=Largest Slaveholders from 1860 Slave Census Schedules |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/msissaquena.htm |publisher=Ancestry.com}}</ref>  The U.S. Census for that year showed that 7,244 slaves were held in Issaquena County, and of 115 slave owners, 39 held 77 or more slaves.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Franks |first=Bob |year=2010 |title=Issaquena County Slave Research |url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msissaq2/ |publisher=Issaquena Genealogy and History Project}}</ref>  [[Stephen Duncan]] of Issaquena County held 858 slaves, second only to [[Joshua John Ward]] of South Carolina.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blake |first=Tom |year=2004 |title=THE SIXTEEN LARGEST AMERICAN SLAVEHOLDERS FROM 1860 SLAVE CENSUS SCHEDULES |url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/biggest16.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719043247/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajac/biggest16.htm |archive-date=July 19, 2013 |access-date=June 9, 2013 |publisher=Ancestry.com}}</ref>  This large "value of slave property" made Issaquena County the second richest county in the United States, with "mean total wealth per freeman" at $26,800 in 1860 ({{Inflation|US-GDP|26800|1860|fmt=eq|r=-3|cursign=$}}).<ref name="cobb">{{Cite book |last=Cobb |first=James C. |title=[[The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity]] |publisher=Oxford |year=1992 |isbn=9780199762439}} - [https://books.google.com/books?id=WF3hl9UAODAC&pg=PP1 Read at] [[Google Books]]</ref>  By 1880—just 15 years after the abolition of slavery—the county had developed "a strong year-round market for wage labor", and Issaquena was the only county in Mississippi to report "no sharecropping or sharerenting whatsoever".<ref name="cobb" />