1790 Free Black Slaveowners

Use Harvard University federal census data files to get the answers to the questions shown below and then check out the correct answers below. This assignment is not graded!  Only the 1790 census at this site provides information on free colored slaveholding families.
If you find out the correct answers, type your username only (assigned to you by UWEC; don't use your ID#) into this box (or I will not know that you have completed this form)

1. How many states had  free colored slaveholding families? 
2. Name the "northern" states that had free colored slaveholding families.
 
3. What is the ratio of  South Carolina's number of free colored slaveholding families to the number of free colored non-slaveholding families?

4. Which state had the largest percentage of white slaveholding families of all white non-slaveholding families? 

5. Which states had over 90 percent of white non slaveholding families of all families?

After you have typed the answer in each box,

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Created by Ingolf Vogeler on 5 March 1997; last revised on 1 June 2002.