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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 10: the Rynders Mob.—1850. (search)
us of Kentucky that, out of some 5,000,000 whites in the South, only 100,000, including women and minors, held slaves. Judge Jay, reckoning Wm. Jay. from the same basis, but applying it to the census of 1840, arrived at the sum of 117,000, which, Wm. Jay. from the same basis, but applying it to the census of 1840, arrived at the sum of 117,000, which, if we were Lib. 20.34. to enlarge it by 70,000, would still exceed by less than one-half the population of Boston in this year of Lib. 20.183. compromise, reaction, and violence. We have sought in vain to discover the common data upon which Palfrey and Jay relied. There has never been a Kentucky State census, nor is any document known to the Auditor's Department which gives any clue to the number of slaveholders. Slaveholders were never enumerated in a United States census; but the Southirers of slaves, 186,551. This would make an average holding of 17, whereas the Kentucky average reported to Palfrey and Jay was 22, and seemed too low to apply to the South at large, as the size of gangs increased going Gulfward (Lib. 20: 38). In