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Although Virginia Maryland and Delaware were slave states the latter two already had a high proportion of free blacks by the outbreak of war Following the Revolution the three legislatures made manumission easier allowed by deed or will Quaker and Methodist ministers particularly urged slaveholders to free their slaves the number and proportion of freed slaves in these states rose dramatically until 1810 More than half of the number of free blacks in the United States were concentrated in the Upper South the proportion of free blacks among the black population in the Upper South rose from less than one percent in 1792 to more than 10 percent by 1810 in Delaware nearly 75 percent of blacks were free by 1810, Alexander Hamilton wrote the Federalist Papers with Jay and Madison, Subsequent English governments continued in their efforts to tax certain goods passing acts regulating the trade of wool, hats and molasses the Molasses Act of 1733 in particular was egregious to the colonists as a significant part of colonial trade relied on the product the taxes severely damaged the New England economy and the taxes were rarely paid resulting in a surge of smuggling bribery and intimidation of customs officials. Colonial wars fought in America were often the source of considerable tension the British captured the fortress of Louisbourg during the War of the Austrian Succession but then ceded it back to France in 1748 New England colonists resented their losses of lives as well as the effort and expenditure involved in subduing the fortress only to have it returned to their erstwhile enemy; Sowell also notes in Ethnic America: a History citing historians Clement Eaton and Eugene Genovese that three-quarters of Southern white families owned no slaves at all. Most slaveholders lived on farms rather than plantations and few plantations were as large as the fictional ones depicted in Gone with the Wind in "The Real History of Slavery," Sowell draws the following conclusion regarding the macroeconomic value of slavery:, Ledger of sale of 118 slaves Charleston South Carolina c 1754, International Organization for Standardization: Geneva Main article: Lobbying in the United States. District of Columbia President George Washington Gilbert Stuart (1795) Presidential election results View of the Potomac River from George Washington's birthplace in Westmoreland County Virginia. . . . .

Photo of three people posing for a picture 4.1 Top destinations, Notes: 6.7 Desertion In addition to federal officials the ordinary citizens of free states could be summoned to join a posse and be required to assist in the capture custody and/or transportation of the alleged escaped slave. . ; .