[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...

[Texas Federalist]

The north also had over 100,000 slaves at the time, a lot less that the 3 million in the south, but not insignificant.

[azhenfud]

Oops!

The statement, "Free Blacks of the North: est. 262,003" should be "Free Blacks of the South: est. 262,003"

Sorry....

[stand watie]

actually NOBODY knows how many free "persons of colour" there were in the southland.the 1860 census was BADLY FLAWED!

we DO know that there were about 100,000+ black/mixed race CSA soldiers, sailors & marines.

thus 262,000 seems really low.

i THINK the actual number was more likely about 500,000 freemen/women.

free dixie,sw