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Proceedings and Debates of the 1850 Constitutional Convention
Volume 101, Page 499   View pdf image
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Total number of manumissions since March 1832 are, Of this number were manumitted forthwith, 1587
Number prospective, and to take effect at a further time, 2612
This number falls far short of the actual maunmissions, as in
many instances by will, neither names or numbers are given, but
all slaves are set free at the testators decease, or at some future lime.
The actual increase or decrease in the several counties and Bal
timore city, of the whites and free colored since the census 1840,
up to the census of 1850, and the relative increase per cent during
those ten years, will appear by the following table:


 

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