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By the 1700s, what percentage of the workers were African slaves?

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By 1700 there were 27,817 enslaved Africans in British North America. In 1740, there were 150,024. By 1770, the number of slaves had grown to 462,000, about one-fifth of the total colonial population.

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though it is impossible to give accurate figure,some historians have estimated 6 to 7 million slaved people...

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