Defiant Oath Keepers founder:18yrs in prison for seditious conspiracy

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(05-26-2023, 02:50 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm not going to lie, 5% being free is higher than I was expecting.

"Mostly mixed race".  I'm gonna assume they were with monied families too...lol.

And I wonder how many became slaves in their lifetime?

And, it's an estimate.

And then not a big change up until the civil war.

Quote:In the antebellum period many slaves escaped to freedom in the North and in Canada by running away, assisted by the Underground Railroad, staffed by former slaves and by abolitionist sympathizers. Census enumeration found a total of 488,070 "free colored" persons in the United States in 1860.