Non-Sinkquittur: "By 1860, of the 476,748 free blacks in the U.S. only 132,760 lived in the confederate states."
ROTFLOL! Non-Sinkie peeled off the free blacks in Maryland (all 84,000 of them) and plunked them down in the "free states" column. BRILLIANT!
Pay no attention to the fact that Maryland was in the Union mostly at gunpoint, and Maryland was exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation for reasons which we can only guess at... ;-)
So, I was looking at ANOTHER table about free blacks, and was astonished to find that of the 476,748 free blacks in the 1860 census, there were 183,369 in the Upper South, and 67,418 in the Lower South. 183,369 + 67,418 = 250787/476,748 = 52.6%
It's odd that from Non-Sinkie's numbers I get 132,760/476,748 = 27.8% !!!
Quelle difference!
Non-Sinkie, you could get a job with the Obama administration. They'd be impressed! One thing, though - you a tax cheat? ;-)
Thanks, I hadn’t noticed that Non-Squirter was falsifying the numbers.
But true.
Pay no attention to the fact that Maryland was in the Union mostly at gunpoint, and Maryland was exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation for reasons which we can only guess at... ;-)
No need to guess. Maryland didn't join the rebellion so there was no legal justification to free her slaves. Your claim that "Maryland was in the Union mostly at gunpoint" is mainly nonsense - the secession convention in February 1861 did not approve secession and the Maryland legislature refused to approve in when they met in Frederick following Virginia's secession. What you are no doubt whining about is the arrest of legislators in September. They were proposing to take Maryland into armed rebellion against the government. What government in their right mind would allow them to do that?
If Maryland was held at gunpoint then it would have needed large numbers of troops to secure transportation. It did not. It would have provided aid and comfort to the rebels when they campaigned in the state. It did not. It would not have provided troops to the Union. In fact, it provided far more troops to the Union than to the confederacy.
So, I was looking at ANOTHER table about free blacks, and was astonished to find that of the 476,748 free blacks in the 1860 census, there were 183,369 in the Upper South, and 67,418 in the Lower South. 183,369 + 67,418 = 250787/476,748 = 52.6%
Your Upper South also seems to include Delaware and Kentucky and Missouri, all Union states. As well as Maryland.