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Did About 25 percent of the Southerners owned more than fifty slaves?
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The situation in about 1860 was as follows:
the population, without the slaves, amounted to:
Whites 7,800,000
Free blacks 200,000,
of which 6,100,000 didn't possess slaves.
Of the remnants 1,900,000:
1,400,000 possessed from 1 to 10 slaves,
300,000 possessed from 10 to 20 slaves,
200,000 (2,5%, two and half percent)) possessed more than 20 slaves.
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What percent of southerners owned more than 50 slaves each in 1850?
2.5%
What percent of white southerners owned slaves on the eve of the civil war in 1860?
A lot.
How many southerners owned 20 or more slave?
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
What percent of southerners in the US owned slaves?
Less than 5%, only the elite could afford them.
What percentage of southerners owned no slaves?
26%
What percent of southerners owned more than 50 slaves each in 1850?
2.5%
What percent of white southerners owned slaves on the eve of the civil war in 1860?
A lot.
How many southerners owned 20 or more slave?
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
What percent of southerners in the US owned slaves?
Less than 5%, only the elite could afford them.
What percentage of southerners owned no slaves?
26%
What percent owned fewer than 5 slaves?
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.
How many white southerners owned slaves?
fewer than 4%
How many southerners owned 100 or more slaves in 1860?
798
How did slavery divide southerners?
It divided the white Southerners into two groups. The group of people who owned slaves, and those who didn't.
How many slaves did most southerners own?
few or no enslaved people at all
How many southern families had slaves before the Civil War?
About 25-30% of white southern families owned slaves on the eve of the Civil War.
What were large scaled southerners who owned more than 20 slaves called?
they were called biligannas
