Bexar County vs Other Texas Counties

1860

Bexar County had a smaller slave population as opposed to other counties in Texas because it could not take advantage of farming cash crops and slave labor was integral to maintaining the operations involved in managing larger farms.

Farm Size in Acreage

6%

29%

3 to 10

3 to 10

15 Enslaved Individuals

19%

+60%

50 to 100

50 to 100

2,060 Individuals

+40%

26%

Bexar County Population1777

100 to 500

100 to 500

<1%

As production of cotton increased across the counties so did the population of enslaved people.

1870

Farm Size in Acreage

The effect of emancipation on farm size in Bexar County

The mass migration that occurred between 1860 and 1870 greatly reduced slave labor making larger farms unsustainable and less profitable, leading to an increase in smaller more manageable farms.

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