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The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the year 1840

Boston: Published by David H. Williams.
New York: Collins, Keese, and Company
Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, and Company

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1839, by
David H. Williams, In the Clerk’s Office of the District of Massachusetts

Cambridge: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Printers to the University.

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CENSUS OF 1838.

     A census of the population of Georgia was taken, in accordance with a law 
of the state, in the latter part of the year 1838.  The result was as 
follows; - whites 393,190; people of color 268,512; total 661,702; number 
represented 54,588.  Present number of Representatives in the State 
legislature 207; number according to the appointment of 1831, 180.

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SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES.

According to five enumerations.

State.	  1790		 1800		 1810		 1820		 1830
Georgia	 29,264		59,404		105,218		149,656		217,531




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