The 1870 U.S. Census might be one of the most meaningful records ever created in the history of the country. For the first time, every person—Black, white, free-born, formerly enslaved, immigrant, farmer, child, war widow—was recorded by name on the main schedule. No longer confined to tally marks or separated into slave schedules, formerly enslaved individuals finally had their names written down as citizens.
This was the country's first full census after the Civil War. Reconstruction was underway, freedmen's schools and churches were forming, and the railroad was pushing west. The country was healing in some ways and breaking in others. But the names were there now, and for family historians, that changed everything.
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