Note 7 — Chapter VI
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The slave-population of the United States, according to the census of 1700, was thus distributed among the states:—
North.
New Hampshire 158
Vermont 17
Massachusetts —
Rhode Island 952
Connecticut 2,759
New York 21,324
New Jersey 11,423
Pennsylvania 3,737
———
40,370
South.
Delaware 8,887
Maryland 103,036
Virginia 293,427
North Carolina 100,572
South Carolina 107,094
Georgia 29,264
Kentucky 11,830
Tennessee 3,417
———
657,527
Total 697,897.