. They constituted less than 5% of the twelve million enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas the great majority of enslaved Africans were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil as life expectancy was short their numbers had to be continually replenished Life expectancy was much higher in the U.S and the enslaved population was successful in reproduction the number of enslaved people in the U.S grew rapidly reaching 4 million by the 1860 Census From 1770 to 1860 the rate of natural growth of North American enslaved people was much greater than for the population of any nation in Europe and it was nearly twice as rapid as that of England. . Booker T Washington remembered Emancipation Day in early 1863 when he was a boy of nine in Virginia:. 2.3 Demographics Eastern North America in 1775 the British Province of Quebec the thirteen colonies on the Atlantic coast and the Indian reserve as defined by the Royal Proclamation of 1763 the 1763 Proclamation line is the border between the red and the pink areas while the orange area represents the Spanish claim, At Washington's urging Governor Lord Botetourt fulfilled Dinwiddie's 1754 promise of land bounties to all volunteer militia during the French and Indian War in late 1770 Washington inspected the lands in the Ohio and Great Kanawha regions and he engaged surveyor William Crawford to subdivide it Crawford allotted 23,200 acres (9,400 ha) to Washington; Washington told the veterans that their land was hilly and unsuitable for farming and he agreed to purchase 20,147 acres (8,153 ha) leaving some feeling that they had been duped. He also doubled the size of Mount Vernon to 6,500 acres (2,600 ha) and increased its slave population to more than 100 by 1775, Delegate (At-large) Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Brazil (1897).
2000 572,059 -5.7% Effective abolition of slavery by Mexican or joint US/British authority On July 9 70 sailors and marines landed at Yerba Buena and raised the American flag Later that day in Sonoma the Bear Flag was lowered and the American flag was raised in its place; . . This rebellion prompted Virginia and other slave states to pass more restrictions on slaves and free people of color controlling their movement and requiring more white supervision of gatherings in 1835 North Carolina withdrew the franchise for free people of color and they lost their vote. . Protestant churches that had separated from the Church of England (called "dissenters") were the "school of democracy" in the words of historian Patricia Bonomi. Before the Revolution the Southern Colonies and three of the New England Colonies had officially established churches:[clarification needed] Congregational in Massachusetts Bay Connecticut and New Hampshire and Anglican in Maryland Virginia North-Carolina South Carolina and Georgia New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware and the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations had no officially established churches. Church membership statistics from the period are unreliable and scarce, but what little data exists indicates that Anglicans were not in the majority not even in the colonies where the Church of England was the established church and they probably did not comprise even 30 percent of the population (with the possible exception of Virginia).
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