What is the highest grossing film set in Delaware?
Fight Club (1999)
Total Lifetime Domestic Gross: $37,030,102
Total Worldwide: $100.9 million
Goosebumps (1995)
Total Lifetime Domestic Gross: $80,080,379
Total Worldwide: $158.26 million
In 1860 (on the eve of the Civil War) what percentage of Delaware’s black population was free?
According to wikipedia in 1869 92% of Delaware’s blacks were “free” which is not to say that they had any rights.
Shifts in the agriculture economy from tobacco to mixed farming resulted in less need for slaves’ labor. In addition local Methodists and Quakers encouraged slaveholders to free their slaves following the American Revolution, and many did so in a surge of individual manumissions for idealistic reasons. By 1810 three-quarters of all blacks in Delaware were free. When John Dickinson freed his slaves in 1777, he was Delaware’s largest slave owner with 37 slaves. By 1860, the largest slaveholder owned 16 slaves.[27]