According to Winterer, as the US gained territory in the early Southwest (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc.), slaves began to be sold from the old slave states of Virginia and Maryland to the new slave states in these territories. What was the percentage population of slaves to total population in the states in 1790 compared to the percentage population in 1820?

Instructions: Fill out the white boxes in the chart below using these calculation instructions.

First, note that some of the states did not report census figures for slaves or total population in a year, so you will not be able to do the calculations in grayed out boxes. Please complete the calculations in the white boxes. In the first column of white boxes (1790) and the second column (1820), you will make the same calculation: the percentage of the states population that was slave.

State / Territory Population in 1790 Total Slave % of Slave Population in 1820 Total Slave % of Slave Slave % Change, 1790 v. 1820 Alabama 309,527 117,549 Connecticut 237,946 2,764 297,675 Delaware 59,094 8.887 76,748 3,292 District of Columbia 39,834 6,119 Georgia 82,548 29,264 516,823 217,531 Indiana 343,031 Illinois 157,445 747 Kentucky 73,677 12,430 687,917 165,213 Louisiana 215,739 109,588 Maine 96,540 399,437 Massachusetts 378,787 610,408 Maryland 319,728 103,036 447,040 102,994 Mississippi 136,621 65,659 Missouri 140,455 25,091 New Hampshire 141,885 158 269,328 New Jersey 184,139 11,423 320,823 2,254 New York 340,120 4,654 1,918,608 76 North Carolina 393,751 100,572 737,987 245,601 Ohio 935,884 Pennsylvania 434,373 3,737 1,348,233 403 Rhode Island 68,825 948 97,199 South Carolina 249,073 107,094 581,185 315,401 Tennessee 681,903 141,603 Vermont 85,539 280,657 Virginia 747,610 292,627 1,211,405 469,757 Southwest Territory 35,691 3,417 Arkansas Territory 30,388 4,576 Florida Territory 34,730 15,501 Michigan Territory 31,639 Totals 3,929,326 681,027 12,858,669 2,009,050