Efforts to reunite families after emancipation. This was conducted on the campus of the university of North Carolina and is part of the booktv college series. It is about 40 minutes. Host professor Heather Andrea williams, in 1863, what was generally the slave population in the u. S. . Guest probably about 5 million the native American South at that point. Slavery has been abolished in northern states. I think it is important to say that just because many people dont realize there had been slavery in the north. But by the 1820s, it has been abolished in places like new york and massachusetts. Proslavery then continued in the south. There were about 5 million. Host of the 5 million, how many do you think were displaced from their families . Guest it is so difficult for me to speak in terms of numbers. It really is. Part of the point of the work is nobody is keeping track of people. I point out that not everybody experiences, but large numbers. If most of them did or if a third of them d