Free People Of Color, North And South, The Year Before The War Of Northern Aggression

Free People of Color 1860 Census

Alabama 2690
Arkansas 144
Florida 932
Georgia 3,500
Louisiana 18,647
Mississippi 773
North Carolina 30,463
South Carolina 9,914
Tennessee 7,300
Texas 355
Virginia 58,042
Kentucky 10,684
Missouri 3,572
Maryland 83,942

However when the one adds the numbers from the North.......

South 250,787
North 225,961

Contrary to popular opinion, according to Nobel Laureate economists R.W. Fogel and S.L. Engerman, both professed liberals, black slaves in the South had a higher living standard in nurition, housing, leisure time, medical care and old age security than did Northern factory workers...