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How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
Alyce Corkery
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How many southerners owned 500 or more slave?
only 11 held 500 or more slaves
How many southerners owned 100 or more slaves in 1860?
798
How many slave owning families owned fifty or more slaves?
7
What percent of southerners owned more than 50 slaves each in 1850?
2.5%
What were large scaled southerners who owned more than 20 slaves called?
they were called biligannas
How many southerners owned 500 or more slave?
only 11 held 500 or more slaves
How many southerners owned 100 or more slaves in 1860?
798
How many slave owning families owned fifty or more slaves?
7
What percent of southerners owned more than 50 slaves each in 1850?
2.5%
What ways did southerners attempt to satisfy the need for more slaves?
Once it was illegal to import slaves from Africa, Southerners tried to increase the existing supply of slaves. They encouraged slave families to have as many children as possible.
What were large scaled southerners who owned more than 20 slaves called?
they were called biligannas
How many slave conducters were in the south during the civil war?
Including those of the Border States the slave owners were: 1,400,000 owned from 1 to 10 slaves, 300,000 owned from 10 to 20 slaves, 200,000 owned more than 20 slaves
How many slave owners were there in 1860?
1,900,000 of whom: 1,400,000 owned from 1 to 10 slaves, 300,000 owned from10 to 20 slaves, 200,000 owned more than 20 slaves.
How would you contrast the Northern and Southern positions on the annexation of Texas?
Southerners sought to extend slavery, already established in Texas. Northerners feared that annexation of more slave territory would tip the uneasy balance in the Senate in favor of slave states-and prompt war with Mexico.
What was the average number of slaves owned by a single person or owner in 1860?
An "average number" of slaves would not be a good way to describe who owned slaves in the south because the majority did not own them. According to most reliable references, no more than 22% or fewer of the southern population owned slaves. The cost of one slave was around $50,000 to $80,000 in twenty first century dollars. The most wealthy 1 percent or so of southerners (like Thomas Jefferson or George Washington) owned around 100 to 200 slaves at any one time. Only about 2000 plantation owners owned the bulk of the slaves. About 17 percent or so of the population owned from 3 to 10 slaves, while around 4% owned one or two slaves. A person had to be very wealthy to own one slave. Owning one slave would be like owning a high end Mercedes or small vacation home today as far as costs are concerned. At least 77 percent of southerners never owned slaves and were either too poor to even think about it, or considered slavery very bad.
What measure did some southerners take to prevent slave revolt?
They killed and hunted down the slaves killing all the ones that would revolt making sure that it would never happen again, is what the southerners thought, but it only sparked more slaves to revolt.
Which concept made slavery more morally acceptable to many Southerners?
Paternalism
