At the first census, in every slave State there was a very large majority of whites--now, the slaves out-number the whites in South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana, and the next census will unquestionably add Florida and Alabama, and probably Georgia, to the number of negro States.
Tappan discusses the alarming trend of increasing slave populations in southern states compared to whites, predicting future changes.
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