Editing Confederate States of America (section)

===Population===
{{Hatnote|Percentages may not total 100% because of rounding.}}
The 1860 United States census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html#y1860|title=1860 Census of Population and Housing |publisher=Census.gov |date=January 7, 2009 |access-date=August 29, 2010}}</ref> gives a picture of the population for the areas that had joined the Confederacy. The population numbers exclude non-assimilated Indian tribes.

{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"
|-
! scope="col" | State
! scope="col" | Total<br />population
! scope="col" | Total<br />number of<br />slaves
! scope="col" | Total<br />number of<br />households
! scope="col" | Total<br />free<br />population
! scope="col" | Total number<br />slaveholders
! scope="col" | % of Free<br />population<br />owning<br />slaves<ref>Calculated by dividing the number of owners (obtained via the census) by the number of free persons.</ref>
! scope="col" | % of Free<br />families<br />owning<br />slaves<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/selected_statistics_on_slavery_i.htm|title=Selected Statistics on Slavery in the United States|website=faculty.weber.edu|accessdate=May 3, 2023}}</ref>
! scope="col" | Slaves<br />as % of<br />population
! scope="col" | Total<br />free<br />colored
|-
! scope="row" | Alabama
| 964,201
| 435,080
| 96,603
| 529,121
| 33,730
| 6%
| 35%
| 45%
| 2,690
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | Arkansas
| 435,450
| 111,115
| 57,244
| 324,335
| 11,481
| 4%
| 20%
| 26%
| 144
|-
! scope="row" | Florida
| 140,424
| 61,745
| 15,090
| 78,679
| 5,152
| 7%
| 34%
| 44%
| 932
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | Georgia
| 1,057,286
| 462,198
| 109,919
| 595,088
| 41,084
| 7%
| 37%
| 44%
| 3,500
|-
! scope="row" | Louisiana
| 708,002
| 331,726
| 74,725
| 376,276
| 22,033
| 6%
| 29%
| 47%
| 18,647
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | Mississippi
| 791,305
| 436,631
| 63,015
| 354,674
| 30,943
| 9%
| 49%
| 55%
| 773
|-
! scope="row" | North Carolina
| 992,622
| 331,059
| 125,090
| 661,563
| 34,658
| 5%
| 28%
| 33%
| 30,463
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | South Carolina
| 703,708
| 402,406
| 58,642
| 301,302
| 26,701
| 9%
| 46%
| 57%
| 9,914
|-
! scope="row" | Tennessee
| 1,109,801
| 275,719
| 149,335
| 834,082
| 36,844
| 4%
| 25%
| 25%
| 7,300
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | Texas
| 604,215
| 182,566
| 76,781
| 421,649
| 21,878
| 5%
| 28%
| 30%
| 355
|-
! scope="row" | Virginia<ref>Figures for Virginia include the future West Virginia</ref>
| 1,596,318
| 490,865
| 201,523
| 1,105,453
| 52,128
| 5%
| 26%
| 31%
| 58,042
|- class="sortbottom" style="background: #f9f9f9; font-weight: bold;"
! scope="row" | '''Total'''
| 9,103,332
| 3,521,110
| 1,027,967
| 5,582,222
| 316,632
| 6%
| 31%
| 39%
| 132,760
|}

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"
|-
! scope="col" | Age structure
! scope="col" | 0–14 years
! scope="col" | 15–59 years
! scope="col" | 60 years and over
|-
! scope="row" | White males
| 43%
| 52%
| 4%
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | White females
| 44%
| 52%
| 4%
|-
! scope="row" | Male slaves
| 44%
| 51%
| 4%
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | Female slaves
| 45%
| 51%
| 3%
|-
! scope="row" | Free black males
| 45%
| 50%
| 5%
|- style="background: #f5f5f5;"
! scope="row" | Free black females
| 40%
| 54%
| 6%
|- style="background: #f9f9f9; font-weight: bold;"
! scope="row" | '''Total population'''<ref>Rows may not add to 100% due to rounding</ref>
| 44%
| 52%
| 4%
|}

In 1860, the areas that later formed the eleven Confederate states (and including the future West Virginia) had 132,760 (2%) free blacks. Males made up 49% of the total population and females 51%.<ref>[http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/php/start.php?year=V1860 All data for this section taken from the University of Virginia Library, Historical Census Browser, Census Data for Year 1860] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011024040/http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/php/start.php?year=V1860 |date=October 11, 2014 }}.</ref>