Chart: Nearly one-fifth to one-eighth of the U.S. population—enslaved Africans and Black Americans—lived under brutal chattel slavery: Slaves as a share of the U.S. population, 1790–1860 | Economic Policy Institute

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Nearly one-fifth to one-eighth of the U.S. population—enslaved Africans and Black Americans—lived under brutal chattel slavery: Slaves as a share of the U.S. population, 1790–1860

Year	Slaves as a share of U.S. population
1790	17.8%
1800	16.8%
1810	16.5%
1820	16.0%
1830	15.6%
1840	14.6%
1850	13.8%
1860	12.6%

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Source: Gibson and Jung 2002, Table 1.

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