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07/07/2025

Which U.S. States Had The Most Slaves At The Start Of The Civil War?

State Slaves in 1860
Virginia 490,865
Georgia 462,198
Mississippi 436,631
Alabama 435,080
South Carolina 402,406
Louisiana 331,726
North Carolina 331,059
Tennessee 275,719
Kentucky 225,483
Texas 182,566
Missouri 114,931
Arkansas 111,115
Maryland 87,189
Florida 61,745
Delaware 1,798
New Jersey 18
Nebraska 15
Kansas 2

07/07/2025

Know your roots!!!!!
But you still have to delve into the original AFRICANS

Slavery was abolished in the United States in 1865 - but the US had passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807, meaning that from the first of January 1808 it was a federal crime to import slaves to the United States. (The slave owners had no problem with this because they had enough slaves on their plantations that they could breed more - and the lack of imports made theirs more valuable).

A slave with a back scarred from flogging, photo taken in 1863

With it being fifty seven years since importing slaves had been legal 99.9% of slaves under the age of 57 were born and bred in the United States. The United States was their country; the only country they had ever lived in. There was nowhere to return to.

Meanwhile even before that there had been the occasional slave freed in the United States. (Thomas Jefferson for example, freed a total of ten slaves in his life and will out of the 200 or so he owned at any given time - all ten of which were close relatives of his slave Sally Hemmings who he had been sleeping with since she was 14). But among those that had been born in Africa where would they go back to?

Slave market in Algiers, North Africa, 1684

If they came from Africa they had ended up as slaves to be sold to European slave traders somehow. Had they been born slaves in Africa? in which case why would that be an improvement? Had they been raided or conquered by a neighbouring tribe? In which case did they know their own tribe even still existed? No matter what they came from somewhere near a slave market and hadn’t seen Africa in however many years they’d been in the United States. They didn’t know for certain they knew anyone there while they had friends and family (at least of choice) in the United States. And probably the last time they had been on a ship it had been a multi-week nightmare with roughly one in six slaves dying in the trip.

Slave deck of the slave ship Marie Séraphique

So why didn’t they? Most of them were in their country; the country they were born and bred in. Most of the rest had nothing to go back to.

07/07/2025

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i wonder which tribe or country did your ancestors come from?

Article is very valuable and note worthy!

i rest my case!! Educate yourself, I dare you

The US Slave TradeThe history of slavery in the US is long and complex. Participation in the African slave trade and use of African slaves provided the building block from which the economy was …

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My people…
Did you know this???
Of course not, bc the narrative and people hid it from you!!!

The Bible says, “the truth shall set you free!”

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I rest my case

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