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Thread #104395   Message #2140718
Posted By: GUEST,Neil
04-Sep-07 - 02:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: history of USA Presidential elections...
Subject: RE: BS: history of USA Presidential elections...
From the US Census: Number of slaves by year
    1790 - 697,681
    1800 - 893,602
    1810 - 1,191,362
    1820 - 1,538,022
    1830 - 2,009,043
    1840 - 2,487,355
    1850 - 3,204,313
    1860 - 3,953,760
    1870 - 0
tell me again about how slavery was "on its way out" in 1860.