13% of the American population was African-americans.
i believe it was 5 or 15
In both countries, blacks were discriminated against and treated with contempt. Blacks did not have equal opportunities with the whites. In the US, blacks fought against racism while in SA they fought against apartheid.
Never mind, I found the answer myself. "Of the 27 million whites counted in the 1860 census, 8 million lived in the slave owning states of the South. Of these, 385,000 owned slaves. Statistically, 4.8% of all Southern whites owned slaves. When factored by the entire population, 1.4% of all United States whites were slave owners."
Many blacks did fight in the south but not as much as blacks in the north. Blacks in the south that fought were either free land owners and were fighting to keep their land, or they were slaves of owners who were drafted in the war and they fought alongside their owners.
In 1860 the textile mills were heavily dependent of US cotton imports. Seventy-five percent of England's cotton came from the US.
462,198 slaves lived in GA according to the official US census of 1860.
Approximately 135,000 free Blacks lived in the South when the US Civil War began.
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There were a great many free blacks living in the south prior to the Civil War. Most free blacks in American lived in the south. In the 1860 census there were 30 million people in the US. Nine million were in the south, including three million slaves, and another half million free blacks. John Hope Franklin, the eminent black historian, has made the free black population of the south a subject of his excellent writing.
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There were 30,626 miles of railroad in 1860 according to Wikipedia.
About 3.5 million, out of a total population of 30 million. There were another .5 million free blacks. Most slaves were in the south, though there were still a few in some nothern states.
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