The census of 1860 showed that there were nearly four million slaves out of a total population of 12.3 million in the 15 slave states. The proportion of slave to white population very gritty from area to area, with the heaviest concentrations in the Deep South. In South Carolina and Mississippi more than half the population were slaves, and in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Georgia the slave population was more than 2/5. In no other state did slaves amount to one-third of the population; in Maryland, the proportion was 13%, in Missouri 10%, in Delaware Amir 1.5%. Overall, there were some 385,000 slave-owners out of about 1.5 million white families (and a total world population of 8 million).
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