Plantation owners demanded large numbers of workers, and the number of those enslaved grew rapidly, to several million by the 1860s. By the 1770s about ____ percent of the population in southern areas of the U.S. was African American.

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By the 1770s, approximately 40 percent of the population in the southern areas of the United States was African American, reflecting the heavy reliance on enslaved Africans for labor in plantation agriculture.

Plantation Owners Demanded Large Numbers of Workers, and the Number