ARKANSAS: Click this link to see all slave labor sites in the state.
- Statehood: 1836; some counties were established before Arkansas became a state
- COUNTIES: Click one of the counties below to see all plantations/ workplaces in that county.
County | Year Est. | Details |
Arkansas | 1813 | Formed from Montgomery County |
Ashley | 1843 | Formed from Chicot, Union and Drew Counties |
Benton | 1836 | Formed from Pike County and lands of the Creek Indians |
Bradley | 1840 | Formed from Washington County |
Calhoun | 1850 | Formed from Dallas and Ouachita Counties |
Carroll | 1833 | Formed from Izard County |
Chicot | 1823 | Formed from Arkansas County |
Clark | 1818 | Formed from Arkansas County |
Columbia | 1852 | Formed from Lafayette, Hempstead and Ouachita Counties |
Conway | 1825 | Formed from Pulaski County |
Craighead | 1859 | Formed from Misissippi, Green and Poinsett Counties |
Crawford | 1820 | Formed from Pulaski County |
Crittenden | 1825 | Formed from Phillips County |
Dallas | 1845 | Formed from Clark and Bradley Counties |
Desha | 1838 | Formed from Arkansas and Chicot Counties |
Drew | 1846 | Formed from Arkansas and Bradley Counties |
Franklin | 1837 | Formed from Crawford County |
Fulton | 1842 | Formed from Izard County |
Greene | 1833 | Formed from Lawrence County |
Hempstead | 1818 | Formed from Arkansas County |
Hot Spring | 1829 | Formed from Clark County |
Independence | 1820 | Formed from Lawrence and Arkansas Counties |
Izard | 1825 | Formed from Independence and Fulton Counties |
Jackson | 1829 | Formed from Woodruff County |
Jefferson | 1829 | Formed from Arkansas and Pulaski Counties |
Johnson | 1833 | Formed from Pope County |
Lafayette | 1827 | Formed from Hempstead County |
Lawrence | 1815 | Formed from New Madrid County, Missouri |
Lovely | 1827 | Abolished in 1828 |
Madison | 1836 | Formed from Washington County |
Marion | 1836 | Formed from Izard County |
Miller | 1820 | Formed from Lafayette County, abolished in 1836, returned in 1874 |
Mississippi | 1833 | Formed from Crittenden County |
Monroe | 1829 | Formed from Phillips and Arkansas Counties |
Montgomery | 1842 | Formed from Hot Spring County |
Newton | 1842 | Formed from Carroll County |
Ouachita | 1842 | Formed from Union County |
Perry | 1840 | Formed from Conway County |
Phillips | 1840 | Formed from Conway County |
Pike | 1833 | Formed from Clark and Hempstead Counties |
Poinsett | 1838 | Formed from Green and St. Francis Counties |
Polk | 1844 | Formed from Sevier County |
Pope | 1829 | Formed from Crawford County |
Prairie | 1846 | Formed from Pulaski and Monroe Counties |
Pulaski | 1818 | Formed from Arkansas County |
Randolph | 1835 | Formed from Lawrence County |
St. Francis | 1827 | Formed from Phillips County |
Saline | 1835 | Formed from Pulaski and Hempstead Counties |
Scott | 1833 | Formed from Pulaski, Crawford and Pope Counties |
Searcy | 1838 | Formed from Marion County |
Sebastian | 1851 | Formed from Scott, Polk, Crawford and Van Buren Counties |
Sevier | 1828 | Formed from Hempstead and Miller Counties |
Union | 1829 | Formed from Hempstead and Clark Counties |
Van Buren | 1833 | Formed from Independence, Conway, and Izard Counties |
White | 1835 | Formed from Pulaski, Jackson and Independence Counties |
Yell | 1840 | Formed from Pope and Scott Counties |