FIGURES FROM THE UNITED STATES CENSUS REPORTS RELATING TO FUGITIVE SLAVES

Table A

	Census of 1850				Census of 1860
			Ratio	Per			Ratio	Per
	Slaves	Fugi-	of Fugi-	Cent	Slaves	Fugi-	of Fugi-	Cent
		tives	tives to	of		tives	tives to	of
			Slaves	Loss		Slaves	Loss
Alabama	342,844	29	11,822	.0084	435,080	36	12,086	.0082
Arkansas	47,100	21	2,242	.0445	111,115	28	3,968	.0252
Delaware	2,290	26	88	1.1352	1,798	12	150	.6674
Florida	39,310	18	2,184	.0457	61,745	11	5,613	.0177
Georgia	381,682	89	4,288	.0233	462,198	23	20,096	.0049
Kentucky	210,981	96	2,198	.0455	225,483	119	1,895	.0527
Louisiana	244,809	90	2,720	.0366	331,726	46	7,211	.0138
Maryland	90,368	279	324	.3088	87,189	115	758	.1318
Mississippi	309,878	40	7,558	.0132	436,631	68	6,422	.0155
Missouri	87,422	60	1,457	.0686	114,931	99	1,161	.0860
North Carolina	288,548	64	4,508	.0222	331,059	61	5,262	.0184
South Carolina	384,984	16	24,061	.0041	402,406	23	17,501	.0057
Tennessee	239,459	70	3,421	.0292	275,719	29	9,509	.0105
Texas	58,161	29	2,005	.0498	182,566	16	11,410	.0087
Virginia	472,528	82	5,693	.0175	490,865	117	4,194	.0238
	3,200,364	1,011	3,165	.0315	3,950,511	803	4,919	.0203

Table B

Showing that the Percentage of Decline of the Slave Population from 1850-1860 was Greater in the Northernmost Counties of the Border Slave States than in these States as a Whole

	Counties	1850	1860	1850	1860
State	Bordering on	A	A	B	B	C	D
	the states
Kentucky	Ill., O., Ind.	.20	.11	.27	.24	45	11
Virginia	Pa., O.	.018	.0089	.53	.47	55	11
Missouri	Ia., Ill.	.11	.081	.15	.108	25	28
Maryland	Pa.	.058	.032	.201	.16	33	20.4
					Average	39.5	17.6

Table B legend:

A = Ratio between White and Slave Population in the Counties bordering on the Free States
B = Ratio between White and Slave Population in Whole State
C = Per Cent of Decline of Slave Population in Counties in 10 Years
D = Per Cent of Decline of Slave Population in States in 10 Years

Table C

Showing the Percentage of Decline of the Slave Population in the "Pan Handle" Counties of Virginia from 1850-1860

		1850	1850	1860	1860	1850	1860
	"Pan
State	Handle"	White	Slave	White	Slave
	Bordering	Popu-	Popu-	Popu-	Popu-	A	A	B
	Pa. and O.	lation	lation	lation	lation
Virginia	Hancock	4,040	3	4,442	2	.00074	.00045	39
"	Brooke	4,923	100	5,425	18	.0203	.0033	83
"	Ohio	17,612	164	22,196	100	.0093	.0045	51
"	Marshall	10,050	49	12,911	29	.0048	.0022	54
"	Wetzel	3,319	32	6,691	10	.0096	.0015	84
For all the Counties		39,944	348	51,665	159	.0089	.0030	56

Table C legend:

A = Ratio between White and Slave Population
B = Per Cent of Decline of Slave Population in 10 Years

FIGURES FROM THE UNITED STATES CENSUS REPORTS RELATING TO FUGITIVE SLAVES

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