300.
The Civil War was fought to establish that point.
According to a census in 1860, 30.8% of the total free population were slave owners. This included both the north and the south combined.
Texas was a slave state and not a free state. Quoting Wikipedia - "A slave state, Texas declared its secession from the United States in early 1861, joining the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War."
Mississippi was a slave state until the end of the Civil War.
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The Union in the American Civil War represented the free states (meaning slave-free states) plus five border slave states in the north of America. The Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) comprised the eleven southern slave states which had seceded from the United States of America.
No! For one, he was born after the slave trade in America had ended, as well as the civil rights movement. I do hope this was not a legitimate question.
America, at the time an English colony, was built by slavery. The slavery, at the time of the Civil War, was concentrated primarily in the south, impacted all American industries: textiles mills, agriculture,ship building, manufacturing, banking, livestock (slave breeding (slave was property could be sold as a commodity, at the time of the Civil War a healthy adult slave was worth $1,600). America was the world's leading exporter in sugar, tobacco, cotton, indigo). Slavery jump started America. At the time of the Civil War their were 4 million slaves. Remember with out the large plantations, America was a county of small farms and local merchants.
The Civil War was fought to establish that point.
According to a census in 1860, 30.8% of the total free population were slave owners. This included both the north and the south combined.
no
Texas was a slave state and not a free state. Quoting Wikipedia - "A slave state, Texas declared its secession from the United States in early 1861, joining the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War."
If you were black, you your automatically a slave.
Kentucky was a slave state
No, the civil war was only in The United States Of America. It was a Battle between the North and the South, the North being Anti-Slavery, The South being slave states. (The south also broke from the union and called themselves The Confederate States Of America.) ~Marcos
Fierce debate over which of the new states could be slave-states and which could be free soil.