some of the figures are outright GUESSES. furthermore, as i've said, MANY areas in the 1860 census weren't counted at all.
DALLAS & FT WORTH, on the west bank of the Trinity, for 2 cities, didn't get "enumerated, as the bridges were "OUT" during the census & nobody even tried to make a count. instead they made a GUESS on, who lived on the west bank..
i trust NOTHING from ANY 19th century census, absent independent proof, like TAX RECORDS for example.
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No, actually you have talked about how POOR the census figure were without offering a shred of hard documentation to back up your claims. I've found nothing that supports the claim that the census figures were so far off. If we figure that at least half of all free blacks of military age enlisted, a percentage probably higher than their white counter parts, then for "Professor" Blackerby's claims, assuming he actually made them, to be correct for every free black male of military age that the census counted it must have missed 10 to 12. You actually want us to believe that the population of the U.S. was closer to 360 million than 30?