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1860 slave population upper south region Virginia 490,000 North Carolina 331,000 Maryland 89,000
1860 slave population upper south region Virginia 490,000 North Carolina 331,000 Maryland 89,000
Many slaves in the south worked on large plantations
large numbers of surplus slaves were sold from the upper South to the lower South.
According to the 1860 census:Total number of slaves in the Lower South : 2,312,352 (47% of total population).Total number of slaves in the Upper South: 1,208758 (29% of total population).Total number of slaves in the Border States: 432,586 (13% of total population).The information (which I have not checked) is here:http://civilwarcauses.org/stat.htm
the north is in the upper part and adn the south is in the lower part that's why it's important to separate the north from south my gash
Slaves represented a sizeable percentage of the population of the antebellum south. In the lower south, slaves represented 47% of the population. The total percentile in the upper south was 29%. The border states had a population of 13% of slaves against the total population.
It ceased to be relevant when the slaves in the Upper South (which was exempted from the terms of the Proclamation) were liberated after the war.
a lot
there were 700000
The Underground Railroad
At the peak in 1860 there were 3.9 million slaves in the south.