Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York 4 300 Pennsylvania (East) 4 400 Pennsylvania (West) 12 500 Delaware 2 100 Maryland 11 500 District of Columbia 2 100 Virginia 8 250 Ohio 4 300 Kentucky 8 200 Tennessee 25 1,000 North Carolina 50 3,000 --- ----- 130 6,625 Exclusive of ten or twelve societies in Illinois. Observe that 106 of these societies were in slaveholding states. G. SLAVE AND FREE NEGRO POPULATION IN TENNESSEE FROM 1790-1860. 1790. 3,417 361 1800. 13,584 309 1810. 44,734 1,318 1820. 80,105 2,739 1830. 141,647 4,511 1840. 183,059 5,524 1850. 239,439 6,442 1860. 275,719 7,300 H. COMPARATIVE VALUE OF LAND AND SLAVES IN THE THREE DIVISIONS OF TENNESSEE, 1859. Land Town Lots Slaves East Tennessee $ 46,127,012 $ 3,044,802 $ 10,470,926 Mid. Tennessee 114,053,549 5,832,718 55,850,579 West Tennessee 52,640,432 20,893,338 44,638,752 ----------- ---------- ---------- 212,820,993 29,770,858 110,960,257 Other Property Aggregate East Tennessee $ 4,333,845 $ 64,186,514 Mid. Tennessee 13,229,968 188,867,004 West Tennessee 5,030,225 124,155,123 ---------- ----------- 22,594,038 377,208,641 I. APPROXIMATE VALUE OF PROPERTY, SLAVES, LAND, AND COTTON IN TENNESSEE. Year Property Slaves Per Acre Per Lb. Land Cotton 1836. $117,845,136 $584.00 $4.00 $.17½ 1838. 125,013,756 540.00 3.82 .13½ 1840. 122,957,624 543.00 3.84 .09 1842. 118,847,672 509.00 3.56 .08 1844. 109,178,121 420.00 3.35 .07½ 1846. 113,176,959 413.72 3.03 .05½ 1848. 129,510,043 467.44 3.06 .09½ 1850. 159,558,183 506.93 3.25 .12 1852. 186,621,119 547.26 3.84 .11 1854. 219,011,047 605.52 4.60 .12 1856. 260,319,611 689.00 5.49 .12½ 1858. 320,398,012 792.23 7.04 .14 1859. 377,208,641 854.65 8.19 .15
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