re: Abraham Lincoln radically changed the nature of the Civil War on this day 161 years ago

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Total Pop Rank, Total Pop, Free Pop, Enslaved Pop, % Enslaved

05 Virginia. 1,596,318 1,105,453 490,865 30.7%
11 Georgia 1,057,286 595,088 462,198 43.7%
14 Mississippi 791,305 354,674 436,631 55.2%
13 Alabama 964,201 529,121 435,080 45.1%
18 South Carolina 703,708 301,302 402,406 57.2%
17 Louisiana 708,002 376,276 331,726 46.9%
12 North Carolina 992,622 661,563 331,059 33.4%
10 Tennessee 1,109,801 834,082 275,719 24.8%

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