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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.
The natural population increase of American-born slaves
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Several states in 1860 had slave populations number in the hundreds of thousands. The largest slave population was Virginia, with 490,000. This was followed by Georgia with 462,000, Mississippi with 436,000 and Alabama with 435,000.
In 1860, the slave population in Tennessee was approximately 275,719.
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about 4 million. You can get nos. for slave population from 1860 census on Web, you'll see it's over 3.9 million.
The slave population of the south continued to grow, doubling from 2 million in 1830 to 4 million by 1860. Even though the international slave trade had abolished in the United States by 1808, it didn't stop being a lucrative business. The natural reproduction of slaves, whether consensual or forced, was an economic plus for the slave owner.
In 1860--the last decennial census before the Civil War--Mississippi and South Carolina had larger slave population than free population. The same was true in 1850. (Note that "free population" is not the same thing as "white population", but that's the data we have).
From the initial slave census conducted in 1790 to the one in 1860, the state of Virginia held the highest number of slaves totaling 490,865 in 1860. Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina are all tied for a close second throughout that time period as well. The total slave population throughout the United States in 1860 was 950,546, so Virginia held around half of the entire slave population in the nation with the previously mentioned states racking up the other half.
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.
1860 slave population upper south region Virginia 490,000 North Carolina 331,000 Maryland 89,000
The natural population increase of American-born slaves
The slave state of South Carolina had placed themselves in an unusual situation with regards to the number of slaves there in 1860. More than half of South Carolina's population were slaves. If slavery, in the eyes of the white population, was abolished all at once, the white population would be outnumbered. As an aside, when Senator Calhoun from South Carolina saw the "slave problem" he pushed for the annexation of Texas in order to spread the slave population more evenly in the South. This was made easier when he was appointed to be the US Secretary of State.
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