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By 1860 the use of slave labor in West Virginia was about 48% in agriculture, 16% in commerce, 21% in industry and 15% in mixed occupations. [17] Agriculture; Farming in West Virginia produced about twice as much grain and livestock than was needed for subsistence, with one in ten farm workers being a slave. [18]
By the 1860 United States census, Berkeley, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Kanawha, and Monroe counties consequently had the largest populations of slaves in present-day West Virginia. [8] The economic and political differences between western and eastern Virginia began to grow.
West Virginia was created as a result of the American Civil War, with Western Virginians forming a new state after Virginia seceded from the Union.Despite the efforts of individuals like Booker T. Washington, West Virginia did not become a significant haven for slaves and free Blacks.
West Virginia did not abolish slavery in its first proposed constitution of 1861, though it did ban the importation of slaves. [40] In 1863, voters approved the Willey Amendment, which provided for gradual abolition of slavery, with the last enslaved people scheduled to be freed in 1884. [ 41 ]
The Fifth Border State: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872 (West Virginia University Press, 2023) online book review Noe, Kenneth W. "Exterminating Savages: The Union Army and Mountain Guerrillas in Southern West Virginia, 1861–1865."
West Virginia became the 35th state on June 20, 1863, and the last slave state admitted to the Union. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] [ 39 ] Eighteen months later, the West Virginia legislature completely abolished slavery, [ 40 ] and also ratified the 13th Amendment on February 3, 1865.
A West Virginia couple are charged with human trafficking, child neglect, forced labor and more after, prosecutors allege, they adopted five Black children from a shelter to do forced labor and ...
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