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The approximate number of slaves in the United States prior to, and during the US Civil War was close to 4.5 million.

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Which section north or south had enslaved African Americans why?

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Economic developments north south 1800 1860?

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What is one way that life for enslaved people was diffrent in the south than in the north?

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What group of southerners measured there wealth partly by the number of enslaved people they controlled?

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How did the experience of enslaved Africans in the north differ from that of enslaved in the south?

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What did southerners wont congress to do about enslaved people who had fled to the north?

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How were enslaved Africans in the north different from the south?

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