Thursday, February 21, 2013

The Free Negro Population

The subjoined table, compiled from the census of 1860, is interesting at this time.  It will be seen that the free negro population of the South is considerably in excess of the North:

NUMBER OF FREE NEGROES

In the Free States.
In the Slave States
California
3,816
Alabama
2,680
Connecticut
8,542
Arkansas
137
Illinois
7,069
Delaware
19,723
Indiana
10,869
Florida
908
Iowa
1,023
Georgia
10,146
Kansas
623
Kentucky
10,146
Maine
1,195
Louisiana
18,638
Massachusetts
9,454
Maryland
83,718
Michigan
6,823
Mississippi
731
Minnesota
229
Missouri
2,988
New Hampshire
450
North Carolina
30,097
New Jersey
24,947
South Carolina
9,648
Ohio
36,225
Texas
339
Oregon
121
Virginia
57,579
Pennsylvania
66,373
Dist. Columbia
11,107
Rhode Island
3,918

259,078
Vermont
582


Wisconsin
1,481



222,747



– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4

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