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Emancipation Statistics
The growth of free Black populations in the United States, and the flow through Philadelphia

Source: Bradford, Erin. Free African American Population in the U.S.: 1790-1860. NCPedia.org. 2008. https://www.ncpedia.org/sites/default/files/census_stats_1790-1860.pdf

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