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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jmike314" data-source="post: 2257939" data-attributes="member: 26830">OK...I see the difference. Both of our numbers come from the same time period. So population totals should be the same, it's just that they're presented differently. 28% of FREE blacks in NEW ORLEANS - I do not dispute that at all. It also reports families rather than total population and this inflates the number of white slaveholders. My numbers according to American populations at the time:- for the 27 million whites in America at the time, less than 400,000 owned slaves ( about 1.5%)- for the 4.5 million blacks in America at the time, less than 4,000 owned salves (about .1%)Thanks for the info.</blockquote>