the states according to their black populations
Digital draft.
“On the eve of the Civil War there were 4½ million Negroes in the United States. Of these, 4¼ million or 95% lived in slave states of the South. The remaining quarter million were mostly in Northern states, less than 7,000 lived in the vast West.”
Lyonel C. Florant, Negro Migration 1860-1940
The current distribution of the Black population still reflects trends from the Great Migration, with the majority living in the South and in the cities of the North and Midwest.