In the thirty years leading up to the Civil War, tensions in the country mounted over the issue of slavery. By 1830, there were more than 2 million slaves in the United States, worth over a ...

A map shows the distribution of the slave population in the Southern states of the United States, based on the 1860 census. Library of Congress Geography and Map Division As the 2016 election ...

The population of the United States by the census of the year 1860 was as follows For the Free States..... 18,904,504 For the fifteen Slave States (free)..... 8,280,545 For ...