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The factual number based on statistics is 5.8%. This number balloons to the twentieth percentile, when those who have an agenda try to say everybody in the household who lives with the head of household(Slave Owner) is an owner as well. Also, you have to remember, if one slave owner had 300 slaves they spread this number amongst the entire southern population, so automatically 299 whites that didn't own slaves now owned at least one. People need to get past this era in order to move on, if you keep rehashing it, it will never go away. Just about every race in history has been enslaved at one point or another. Only about 1% of the population lived like Scarlet O'hare on a big southern plantation, most lived in squalor in the backwoods.
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What percent of southern population owned slaves?
Approximately 85%
What percent of Texans owned slaves in 1850?
75% or 3/4
What percentage of white families in the South owned slaves immediately before the Civil War?
It was calculated that in the South in 1860, compared to a global population of about 8 million white and 200,000 free blacks, only 1,6 million where slave holders, of which: 1,4 million owned 1 to 10 slaves, 300,000 owned 11 to 20 slaves, 200,000 owned owned more than 20 slaves.
Was Charles pinckney against slavery?
No, he actually owned 300 slaves.
Why did most southerners refuse to allow African Americans to fight?
Many Southerners believed that slaves were property, and property cannot have a gun, fight, or kill people. Sometimes blacks did fight for the Confederacy, however
