LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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1 out of every 25 Black Americans
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1 out of every 50 Black Americans
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1 out of every 100 Black Americans
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1 out of every 10 Black Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Free Blacks and abolitionism. During the period of slavery, free Blacks made up about one-tenth of the entire African American population. In 1860 there were almost 500, 000 free African Americans-half in the South and half in the North.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the American Revolution, the Southern slave population exploded, reaching about 1.1 million in 1810 and over 3.9 million in 1860.
Detailed explanation-3: -Amazing, right? Even if, as Berlin illustrates in a companion table, 100 percent of the African Americans living in the North were free in 1860 (compared to only 6.2 percent in the South), it still is a puzzle to figure out why the majority lived below the Mason-Dixon Line.
Detailed explanation-4: -Introduction. Between 1910 and 1970, several million Black Americans migrated from the South in what became known as “the Great Migration.” This resulted in a large-scale redistribution of the Black population-nearly 90 percent of Black Americans lived in the South in 1910, but by 1970, less than half did.