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Civil War Statistics:

Slaves as a Percentage of the U.S. Population

(1800-1860)

The chart below shows the numbers of Americans in each census year from 1800 to 1860, along with the total population of enslaved African-Americans in the United States (and in the Confederacy). The last column shows the what percentage of the total U.S. population were enslaved. By the time of the next census, in 1870, slavery had been ended.

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Slaves as a Percentage of the U.S. Population

Year	Total U.S. Population (in millions)	Total U.S. Slave Population (in millions)	Slaves as a Percentage of the Total U.S. Population
1800	5.1	0.9	17.6%
1810	6.8	1.1	16.1%
1820	10	1.5	15 %
1830	12.8	2.0	15.6%
1840	17	2.5	14.7%
1850	23	3.2	13.9%
1860	31.2	4.0	12.8%

NOTE: The population of the Confederate States in 1860 (according to the 1860 census) stood at 9,103,332. Of that number, 3,521,110 were enslaved African-Americans. Enslaved African-Americans constituted 38.67% of the total population of the Confederate states.

The percentage of Southern families that possessed slaves was 30% in 1860.

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