About four million. There were also eight million whites in the slave states. The proportion of slaves in the populations of the slave states ranged from 13% in Maryland to 55% in Mississippi and 57% in South Carolina.
By 1860, many southern slave owners and plantation owners owned less than 100 black slaves in their farming land.
one out of three
About four million slaves were in the US at the start of the US Civil War. Most of them were in the eleven Confederate states.
In 1860 the US had a population of 31 million. There were almost 4 million slaves, mostly in the southern states.
four million
The field work on Southern plantations was done almost exclusively by slaves. These plantations often consisted of cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco and were very labor intensive.
C.They put it back into their plantations and bought slaves.
House slaves looked after the owners house and family on Southern plantations. House slaves were selected from the most well-behaved of the field slaves. House slaves cooked the meals, cleaned the house, did the laundry, and looked after the children.
Primarily, cotton and tobacco.
There were many things true about Southern planters. Southern farmers often owned slaves, worked large plantations, and harvested crops like tobacco, cotton, and sugar.
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The field work on Southern plantations was done almost exclusively by slaves. These plantations often consisted of cotton, rice, indigo, and tobacco and were very labor intensive.
To work the plantations
They have the most plantations
Laborers
They needed slaves to work on their plantations.
C.They put it back into their plantations and bought slaves.
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