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Of the 27 million whites counted in the 1860 census, 8 million lived in the slave owning states of the South. Of these, 385,000 owned slaves. Statistically, 4.8% of all Southern whites owned slaves. When factored by the entire population, 1.4% of all United States whites were slave owners.

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There were about 3.5 million slaves in the US around 1850. There are about 27 million slaves in the world today.

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twenty hundred people

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