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Total Free Population27,489,561Total Slave Population3,953,760Grand Total31,443,321
What caused the slave population in the Chesapeake colonies to grow?
By the start of the Civil War in 1860s, there was a large slave population in the United States. The total number of slaves were 3,950,528.
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In 1609 the first slave was brought into the United States to the Jamestown Colony. From that point on the number of slaves grew. When the cotton gin was invented it grew and by 1750 the southern population was 35% slave.