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
The North had less use for slaves than the South did, and many Northern people helped slaves gain freedom.
About 2 million were in the south. Which was 20% of the whole population.
In the South, there are two regions calls the Upper South and the Deep South. Slaves in the Deep South lived brutally. There was very low sanitation, and they lived in small broken-down cottages or huts with only hay as comfort and warmth. These slaves were often whipped until they bled and had severe cuts on their backs. They were rarely fed, with only dirty water or bits of old bread/etc. In the Upper South, they were treated less brutal. They would fit 3 or 4 slaves in a room with small beds. It was cramped, but it was something. They would work all day long in the house, blacksmithing, tending crops in the fields, picking cotton, etc... Slaves were not supposed to have an education or any legal rights. They were not hurt and whipped as much as the Deep South.
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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
The South. The only slaves in the Union were in the four Border States of the Upper South (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware), where there was less pro-slavery sentiment than in the Deep South. But of course it was the North that received a constant influx of liberated slaves, who were eventually absorbed into the Union armies.