2007-11-25 03:08:08 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I believe so especially in sugar plantations where you would have a couple of white family households and dozens maybe hundreds of African Americans working.
2007-11-25 03:12:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. However, there were more African Americans than whites in some counties in the South.
2007-11-25 11:31:47 · answer #2 · answered by Canebrake 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In some southern states there were very large populations of slaves but South Carolina is the only state I can think of that had a larger slave population than white population at some point.
2007-11-26 16:46:01 · answer #3 · answered by grob 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The 1860 census produced the following figures of population:
26,690,781 White population
55,221 Free Colored population
3,950,546 Slave population
30,332 Indian population
404 half-breed population
34, 933 Asiatic population
This entire census (by State) for the years 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860. can be found at:
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/Reference/censi/CENDAT1.html
2007-11-25 12:54:05 · answer #4 · answered by Randy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋