According to the data, the state with the most slaves in 1860 was South Carolina with 57.2 percent of the population being slaves. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

President Abraham Lincoln used a larger map of the South -- viewable here-- in determining which states might secede from the Union.Missouri had 114,900 slaves in 1860, accounting for 9.7 percent ...

BALTIMORE, Monday, Dec. 11, 1860. The "unreserved motion towards self-distinction," with which South Carolina seems disposed to precipitate secession, would occasion in us a sensation not unlike ...