From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
Subject: Re: Lincoln & slavery (Re: Top Ten Tricks You Can Play on the American Voter)
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In article <CB.93Apr5130728@tamarack13.timbuk>, cb@tamarack13.timbuk (Chris Brewster) writes:
> Craig Depken writes:
> 
>     The fact that the South had a number of slave owners is true, but
>     relatively small numbers (around 1200) had more than a few hundred slaves.
>     (I have to get references that I do not have here for 
>     exact numbers.)
> 
> If it has any bearing on this discussion, I saw a figure for the total
> number of slave-owners as 300,000.  Does anyone have a figure for how
> many slaves there were?  How many farmers without slaves?
> 
> Chris Brewster                            E-MAIL ADDRESS: cb@cray.com

In 1860:

region              total population  free blacks  %       slaves   %
U.S.                32,227,616        487,070      1.5%    3,953,818 12.3%
Confederacy          9,103,332        132,760      1.5%    3,521,110 38.7%
Union Slave States   3,212,041        128,158      4.0%      432,586 13.5%
All Union States    23,124,284        354,310      1.5%      432,708  1.9%
Union "Free" States 19,912,243        226,152      1.1%          122  0.0%


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