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.
Approximately 85%
75% or 3/4
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.
No, he actually owned 300 slaves.
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
2.5%
A lot.
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
Less than 5%, only the elite could afford them.
In 1860, approximately 25% of white households in the southern United States owned slaves. This means that not all white southerners owned slaves, but a significant portion did.
26%
Why was life so different after the south lost especially because so few southerners actually owend slaves
Around 75% of southern whites owned fewer than five slaves. The majority of white southerners owned no slaves at all, as slaves were primarily held by a small percentage of wealthy plantation owners.
Of all the slaves owned forty-nine percent owned fewer than 5 slaves. Only five percent of Southern whites lived in a home that owned slaves. Which equals out to twenty-five percent of whites owned slaves.
fewer than 4%
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It divided the white Southerners into two groups. The group of people who owned slaves, and those who didn't.