[Sidenote: Population.]
A census taken in 1790 gives us the number of inhabitants as a little under 4,000,000. Of these, 750,000-nearly one-fifth of the whole population-were negroes. Of the 3,170,000 whites, the ancestors of eight- tenths were probably English, and most of the others spoke English and were a homogeneous part of the community. C
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