History of the United States I / Unit 12 USH1 1682 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Free Black People
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The idea
Approximately two hundred sixty-one thousand free Black people lived in slave states, and two hundred twenty-six thousand in northern free states.
In practice
Concentration in the upper South rather than the Deep South.
Where people slip
Sources of freedom included post-Revolutionary manumission, the shift to wheat, and arrivals from Cuba and Haiti.
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