History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1667 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Population Figures
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The idea
The eighteen hundred census counted over one million African Americans, nearly nine hundred thousand of them enslaved.
In practice
By eighteen sixty, four point four million African Americans, three point nine five million held in bondage.
Where people slip
The anchor calls the internal movement one of the largest forced internal migrations in the United States.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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