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Justin Madron’s map of demographic change in the early American South grapples with the movements of enslaved, free, and Indigenous people after America’s founding. For this Behind the Map, Madron, ...
Some blacks, however, were living free. The census of 1790 revealed that 59,000 free blacks lived in the United States -- approximately 27,000 in the North and 32,000 in the South. By 1830 ...