TABLE 7. Selected entries of the 1860 census of the large slaveholders of Louisiana (Menn, 1964). | |||
Crops and livestock |
Conseil Plantation (of St. Bernard Parish) |
St. Bernard Parish |
Orleans Parish |
Cane sugar (1,000-pound hogheads) | 250 | 3,884 | 1,750 |
Molasses (gallons) | 16,000 | 218,850 | 109,000 |
Ginned cotton (400-pound bales) | 0 | 0 | 400 |
Indian corn (bushels) | 3,000 | 68,300 | 22,500 |
Irish potatoes (bushels) | 1,500 | 4,150 | 1,950 |
Sweet potatoes (bushels) | 1,200 | 4,280 | 2,600 |
Peas and beans (bushels) | 0 | 639 | 2,430 |
Horses | 4 | 63 | 44 |
Asses and mules | 36 | 579 | 196 |
Milk cows | 12 | 119 | 82 |
Oxen | 15 | 124 | 63 |
Sheep | 30 | 268 | 284 |
Swine | 0 | 72 | 387 |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File 98-36. Carbon storage and late Holocene chronostratigraphy of a Mississippi River deltaic marsh, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana (H.W. Markewich, ed.). |