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The social structure of the eighteenth cerntury was not so different from the one which we live in today. By 1775 2.5 million people inhabited the thirteen colonies of whom about half a million were black. White immigrants made up nearly 400,000 of the increased number, and "forced immigrants" accounted for almost as many. The colonist were doubling every twenty-five years. The major