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http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html It varied dramatically by state; according to that census, Mis

by lsc 9y ago

http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html It varied dramatically by state; according to that census, Mississippi and South Carolina were both majority slave. Certainly, the CSA was majority free, but I think that 'places'... 'including in the united states' is most correctly construed to mean that there were identifiable regions of the US that had more slaves than free people; I think states fit into the previous poster's use of "places"

CydeWeys 9y ago
You are correct in interpreting the use of the word "places" in my comment to refer to areas/regions that were smaller than "the entire Confederacy". It's also worth pointing out that most slaves didn't venture rather than some small number of miles from where they were born, so what was happening 1,000 miles away two states over wasn't relevant to their life in the slightest. What was happening in their county was relevant. And outside of the cities in the South, where the plantations were, most counties were majority enslaved.