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According to the 1790 US Census, 94% of US slaves lived south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
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According to the US census of 1790, the number of slaves in the US totaled 698,000. Ninety four percent of the slave population were south of the Mason Dixon Line.
There were 304.000 in 1790. By the time it was 1860 the number increased to 3,950,000.
Many slaves in the south worked on large plantations
Larger plantations called for more workers. As a result, the number of slaves in the South nearly doubled from 700,000 to 1,200,000 by the mid-1800s.
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At the peak in 1860 there were 3.9 million slaves in the south.
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