$3 billion

bluegrayreview.com

Fire-Eater Plays Lexington | Blue Gray Review

Here Yancey states that the market value of slaves is almost 3 billion dollars.

alternatehistory.com

Gateway: Musings on the American Civil War

The authors point out that the market value of the slaves in the South was 2.7 billion dollars at the time of the civil war.

boards.straightdope.com

How long would slavery have lasted if there were no US Civil War - Straight Dope Message Board

The South held $2.8 billion worth of slaves.

measuringworth.com

Measuring Worth - Measures of worth, inflation rates, saving calculator, relative value, worth of a dollar, worth of a pound, purchasing power, gold prices, GDP, history of wages, average wage

In that year, there were an estimated four million slaves living in the South and it is estimated that their aggregate market value was over $3 billion then and that corresponds to $10 trillion today (as a share of GDP).

Measuring Worth - Measures of worth, inflation rates, saving calculator, relative value, worth of a dollar, worth of a pound, purchasing power, gold prices, GDP, history of wages, average wage

In particular, in 1860 there were nearly four million slaves and their average market value was around $800, but what does that mean?1 How much would that be in today's dollars?

allshookdown.com

A Short History of American Capitalism: TWO WORKING CLASSES, 1790-1865

In 1860, the market value of all enslaved workers in the United States was slightly over three billion dollars.1

$4 billion

traffickingproject.blogspot.com

The Human Trafficking Project: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value of close to $4 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War.

eh.net

Slavery in the United States | Economic History Services

Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value of close to $4 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War.

forum.prisonplanet.com

Nearly 150 years after the 13th Amendment, the U.S. is not yet free from slavery

Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value of close to $4 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War.

gcmwatch.com

How racists, slaveowners and progay clerics profit off ...

Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value of close to $4 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War.

How racists, slaveowners and progay clerics profit off ...

Nearly 4 million slaves with a market value of close to $4 billion lived in the U.S. just before the Civil War.

$6 billion

gongol.com

What If the Union Had Bought Out the Confederacy Instead of Fighting? | Gongol.com

$5,803,000,000

$2 billion

prorev.com

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In a nation with an annual federal budget of only $50 million, slaves had a market value of $2 billion, or more than twice that of all the country's railroads.