[azhenfud]

Here's a little trivia for you:

It has been said that prior to the War of Northern Aggression, the South was a land of slavery and oppression to the Black race. Slavery was undeniably a bad institution. However, the number of Free Blacks living alongside their white counterparts were roughly three times in number in the South than in the North.

If statistics be the bearer of any testimony, let it be that the Southern accepted his Free Black neighbor living among them more readily than did their Northern countrymen.

Here are those Free Black population numbers:

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

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

(from "Best Little Stories from the Civil War" - C. Brian Kelly - Pp 74 & 75)

There were 2.96 times more free Blacks in the South than the North prior to the War of Northern Agression.

[Modernman]

There were 2.96 times more free Blacks in the South than the North prior to the War of Northern Agression.

As a percentage, that's true, but not as a number (you quoted 225K free blacks in the North versus 262K in the South).

Certainly, it makes sense that there were more free blacks in the South, since the vast majority of blacks at the time lived in the South.

let it be that the Southern accepted his Free Black neighbor living among them more readily than did their Northern countrymen.

If that was the case, why were there about the same number of free blacks in the North as there were in the South? Since it is logical to assume that the free blacks in ths North moved there from the South, it would seem that the migration of blacks was from the South to the North, thereby going against your claim that Southerners got along well with free blacks.

[Non-Sequitur]

There is an old expression about using statistics in the same manner that a drunken man uses a lamp lost - for support rather than ilumination.

Your claim is false. There were not 2.96 times as many free blacks in the south as there were up North. If there were 226,000 blacks up North then for your claim to be correct then there would have to have been almost 669,000 free blacks down south and that is patently ridiculous.

[PeaRidge]

Good statistics. Abolition in the Northern states meant freeing the slaves, then moving them out of state.

[capitan_refugio]

A classic non sequitur. You are in serious need of statistical training.