of the United States and Territories of North America . 75 
hibits, in its proper columns, the free persons proportional to it. 
It may be necessary to observe, that when the character x oc- 
curs in the table, it is intended to express, that no slaves existed 
in the State or the territory at the time of the enumeration 
and that when the symbol * occurs, no enumeration was taken, 
either of slaves or free persons. 
Free 
Free 
Free 
Free 
States and Terri- 
Persons 
Persons 
Persons 
Persons 
TORIES. 
in 
in 
in 
in 
1790. 
1800. 
1810. 
1820. 
Maine, 
00 
00 
X 
X 
<U 
New Hampshire, 
'897 
22981 
X 
X 
Massachusets, 
00 
00 
X 
X 
Rhode Island, 
72 
181 
711 
1851 
£ 
Connecticut, 
85 
263 
844 
2836 
o 
Vermont, 
5345 
GO 
X 
X 
c/5 
r New-York, - 
15 
27 
63 
135 
Of 
New Jersey, - 
15 
16 
22 
36 
CO 
Pennsylvania, 
115 
352 ' 
1016 
4972 
<u 
Delaware, 
6 
9 
16 
15 
Ohio, 
9 
X 
X 
X 
3 
^Indiana, 
o 
+■> 
* 
41 
102 
774 
' Maryland, 
> 
- 
2.1 
2.3 
2.4 
2.8 
o 
Virginia, 
53 
o 
1.6 
1.5 
1.5 
1.5 
rt 
North Carolina, 
G 
2,9 
2.6 
2.3 
2.1 
55 
South Carolina, 
O 
1.3 
1.4 
1.1 
0.9 
{3 • 
S3 
Georgia, 
1.8 
1.7 
1.4 
1.3 
£ 
Louisiana, 
« 
• 
6 
1.2 
g 
Tennessee, - 
« 
7 
5 
4.3 
02 
Kentucky, 
5 
4.5 
4 
3.5 
'Alabama, 
• 
* 
1.2 
2.0 
m 
Missisipi, 
« 
1.5 
1.4 
1.3 
0) 
'S 
Illinois, 
• 
72 
59 
o 
Missouri, 
* 
» 
• 
5.8 
*g 
Michigan, 
* 
« 
197 
X 
Arkansas, 
• 
• 
* 
8 
Columbia, 
• 
4 
3.4 
4 
The whole Population, 
L 
.1 
4.6 
4.9 
5.1 
1 53 1 
This table brings into one point of view the relation which 
existed between the slaves and the free white persons in every 
State, and also with the aggregate population, at the periods in- 
dicated at the heads of the respective columns. In the Northern 
and Middle States, the numbers will be found to increase in all 
the periods, excepting in the single instance of Delaware, in the 
year 1820 ; but, in the Southern States and territories, they will 
be found, on the contrary, generally to decrease ; confirming the 
remark before made, that, in the former provinces, the slaves 
