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 * //This map is showing the number of slave holding residences versus the number of non- slaving holding residences at that current time, 1860. In this image, the fact that there are more non- slave holding residences is quite apparent. //




 * //This image is a representation of the number of slaves at each slave holding residence in 1860. The average amount of slaves at a plantation in Augusta county was eleven to twenty. There is only one plantation with twenty- one to thirty slaves and one with thirty- one to forty- one slaves. //



Other facts that can be deduced from these two images is the geographical differences in Augusta county. We see more human activity running through the middle of the county. On a map of Virginia, this would show that most households were in the Shenandoah Valley, and that the farther west in the county, one comes to the Blue Ridge Mountains where there are less, if any, households. This would speak loudly the fact that Augusta County's economy was very agricultural based, seeing as how it is very difficult to cultivate land in mountains and easy in the fertile land of the Shenandoah Valley.

Also when observing these maps, the question of how modern memory percieves the South's ownership of hundreds of slaves on every plantation versus the reality of historical fact is raised. Obviously historical fact is demolishing modern memory in this case, because it is clearly the opposite as seen in these two maps, even granting that Augusta County was more northern Virginia.