SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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1-2 million
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2-2.5 million
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1-4 million
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It stayed a 1 million consistently
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Detailed explanation-1: -March 18, 1861 Of those 31 million, as also reported on the tables accompanying the map, 3, 952, 838 were slaves. The map also provides statistics on the free and slave populations in each state as recorded in the 1850 and 1860 census.
Detailed explanation-2: -BACKGROUND. Between 1790 and 1860, American slavery expanded on a grand scale: federal census records show the 1790 slave population of seven hundred thousand increased to nearly four million in 1860, This growth was linked to the phenomenal increase in cotton cultivation in the South.
Detailed explanation-3: -A new chapter in American history opened as the Thirteenth Amendment, passed in January of 1865, was implemented. It abolished slavery in the United States, and now, with the end of the war, four million African Americans were free.
Detailed explanation-4: -As the bloody war waged on, Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, calling for the freeing of enslaved people in areas of the rebellion. And in 1865, the Constitution was ratified to include the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished all forms of slavery in the United States.