🇺🇸 On August 1, 1790, the first U.S. census, which had begun in May of that year, was completed. The count was carried out by U.S. marshals. The results were finalized on August 2, 1790, showing that at the time the country had a population of 3,929,326 people, of whom 697,681 were enslaved.

Slaves were counted as well, since 3/5 of them were included when determining the number of congressional representatives from each state. Indians were not counted, as they were deemed unnecessary.

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1 points villotacamilo293

The founding fathers yall!

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Less than 2% of White-European Americans owned slaves. It makes me wonder who owned all these vast plantations and businesses. Also - by 1865, over 360,000 white's laid down their lives in the effort to end slavery. Chattel engenderment is one thing, but the global slave trade happened everywhere.

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