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  2. Category : Slavery in the United States by state or territory

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    History of slavery in North Carolina; History of slavery in North Dakota; History of slavery in Nebraska; Slavery in New Hampshire; History of slavery in New Jersey; History of slavery in New York (state) History of slavery in New Mexico

  3. Slave states and free states - Wikipedia

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    In the South, Kentucky was created as a slave state from Virginia (1792), and Tennessee was created as a slave state from North Carolina (1796). By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each.

  4. History of slavery in the United States by state - Wikipedia

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    Evolution of the enslaved population of the United States as a percentage of the population of each state, 1790–1860. Following the creation of the United States in 1776 and the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1789, the legal status of slavery was generally a matter for individual U.S. state legislatures and judiciaries (outside of several historically significant exceptions ...

  5. History of slavery in North Dakota - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; History of slavery in North Dakota

  6. History of North Dakota - Wikipedia

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    A 2013 census report listed North Dakota's population at an all-time high of 723,393 residents, making North Dakota the fastest growing state in the nation. The population boom reverses nearly a century of flat population numbers.

  7. Dakota Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.

  8. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    An extension of the homestead principle in law, the Homestead Acts were an expression of the Free Soil policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave owners who wanted to buy up large tracts of land and use slave labor, thereby shutting out free white farmers.

  9. Slavery among Native Americans in the United States

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    Other slave-owning tribes of North America included the Comanche of Texas; the Creek of Georgia; the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, who lived in Northern California; the Pawnee; and the Klamath. [8] When St. Augustine, Florida, was founded in 1565, the site already had enslaved Native Americans, whose ancestors had migrated from Cuba. [2]