distribution of black americans in the united states
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
This map shows more specifically the distribution of the Black population across the rural south and in cities. Much of the Western United States is difficult to make out on the map because of the low concentration of Black people.