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  2. 1860 United States census - Wikipedia

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    The 1860 United States census was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,321 [ 1 ] in 33 states and 10 organized territories.

  3. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    As of the census of 1860, the 49 exempted counties held some 6000 slaves over 21 years of age who would not have been emancipated, about 40% of the total slave population. [20] The terms of the Willey Amendment only freed children, at birth or as they came of age, and prohibited the importation of slaves.

  4. List of U.S. states and territories by historical population

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    The population figures provided here reflect modern state boundaries. Shaded areas of the tables indicate census years when a territory or the part of another state had not yet been admitted as a new state. [a] Since 1920, the "total population" of the United States has been considered the population of all the States and the District of ...

  5. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By 1860, the slave population in the United States had reached four million. [171] Of the 1,515,605 free families in the fifteen slave states in 1860, nearly 400,000 held slaves (roughly one in four, or 25%), [ 172 ] amounting to 8% of all American families.

  6. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of the enslaved population of the United States as a percentage of the population of each state, 1790–1860. Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions ...

  7. History of slavery in Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860. Note the population densities in the Black Belt region. Originally part of the Mississippi Territory, the Alabama Territory was formed in 1817.

  8. Confederate States of America - Wikipedia

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    According to the 1860 United States census, the 11 states that seceded had the highest percentage of slaves as a proportion of their population, representing 39% of their total population. The proportions ranged from a majority in South Carolina (57.2%) and Mississippi (55.2%) to about a quarter in Arkansas (25.5%) and Tennessee (24.8%).

  9. Border states (American Civil War) - Wikipedia

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    By 1860, more than half of the African Americans in Delaware were free, as were a high proportion in Maryland. [13] According to the 1860 United States census, slaves comprised less than a fifth of the population in all five border states, specifically Kentucky (19.5%), Maryland (12.7%), Missouri (9.7%), West Virginia (4.9%), and Delaware (1.6%).