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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 46 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 44 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 44 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 42 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 40 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 38 0 Browse Search
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 36 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 34 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 0 Browse Search
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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 280 (search)
slaughter, it is fortunate that we can show its true character by unquestionable documentary proof. The first census of the United States was taken in 1790, which was soon after 1789, the time spoken of by Mr. Davis. According to that census, there were then the following numbers of slaves in what are now the Free States : New Hampshire158 Vermont17 Rhode Island952 Connecticut2,759 New York21,324 New Jersey11,423 Pennsylvania3,737   Total40,370 In Massachusetts, including Maine, there were no slaves, and had been none for some ten years. These 40,870 slaves, Mr. Davis says, the North, finding them unprofitable, sold to the South, and the South bought and paid for. Let us see: New Hampshire. The whole colored population was, in--  Free.Slave.Total. 1790630158788 18008568864 1810970none.970 From 1790 to 1800, the slaves had diminished 150, and the free blacks had increased 226. From 1800 to 1810, the 8 remaining slaves disappeared, and the free bl
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