At the beginning of the civil war, slavery was concentrated mainly in the South; The agricultural production of tobacco and cotton was heavily labored by slaves, guaranteeing a profitable business. By then, there were at least five states concentrating the majority of slaves with more than 400.000; Virginia had the highest population with 490.867 followed by Georgia with 462.198.
On the other hand, in 1990 New York was the state with the largest African - American population with 2.859.000 residents, most of them attracted by industry and job opportunities given in the cities of the North East, being New York the center of attention.
One cause of the unparalleled material abundance of the United States in the 1950s is the population where in the population likely increase for about thirty million-- contributing to the unparalleled material abundance in the United States during the 1950s.
