Posted Jun 19, 2026, 2:27 PM
|
|
Registered User
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 11,898
|
|
It was a pretty common characteristic of slave colonies that the enslaved populations outnumbered the free populations. Before the Civil War there were a number of Deep South states that had slave majorities or near parity to free populations.
Percentage enslaved of total state populations in 1850 census
57.6% -- South Carolina
51.1% -- Mississippi
47.3% -- Louisiana
45.0% -- Florida
44.4% -- Alabama
42.1% -- Georgia
33.2% -- Virginia
33.2% -- North Carolina
27.4% -- Texas
23.9% -- Tennessee
22.4% -- Arkansas
21.5% -- Kentucky
7.1% -- District of Columbia
|
Threaded Mode