What percent of all African Americans in the United States in 1860 lived in the North?

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Kristin Barron

9 July, 15:49

What percent of all African Americans in the United States in 1860 lived in the North?

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Jabari Ward · Answer 1

Also, according to the Gilder Lehrman Institute, of the total African-American population in 1860, nearly 90 percent were slaves. And, while blacks made up only 13 percent of the entire country, in the South one in three people was black.