The u. s. slave population by 1860 was approximately:

The United States slave population by 1860 was approximately four million.
In 1850, a majority of southern slaveholders owned one to five slaves. Slavery was started in America in 1619, when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia. Slaves were used for many kinds of work. 

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.