[Texas Federalist]

What those race-baiters fail to realize is that in 1861, as a percentage of population, there were TWO AND THREE-QUARTER TIMES more free blacks living in the South than there were the North.

Good info. Didn't know that. How about the fact that during the civil war there was still legal slavery in the Union? The emancipation proclamation also didn't apply to slaves living in the North. They were freed by the 13th Amendment, eight months after the conclusion of the war.

[azhenfud]

Here are those numbers:

Population of the North: est. 31.4 million
Free Blacks of the North: est. 225,967
Population percentage: 0.72% free Blacks in North

Population of the South: est. 12.3 million
Free Blacks of the North: est. 262,003
Population percentage: 2.13% free Blacks in South

2.13 divided by 0.72 equals 2.96 times, but the low estimate is abt 2.5 times, equalling roughly an average 2.75 times more free Blacks in the South than the North.

Also, how about the fact that of those free Blacks, some had slaves of Blacks and American Indian races combined. The Black race isn't the ONLY race affected by slavery - the Creek, Blackfoot, Cherokee, and other tribes of Red man were also placed in bondage by the White and Black man. Yet, it's seldom heard of American Indian descendents to remove the CBF. Why? Because they are an independent people...