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.
According to a census in 1860, 30.8% of the total free population were slave owners. This included both the north and the south combined.
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Masters or just plain slave owners
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.
According to a census in 1860, 30.8% of the total free population were slave owners. This included both the north and the south combined.
5%
about 90%-95% were slave owners living in the south
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
They bought slaves. The first slave came in 1619 and by 1860 there were 5 million slaves.
In 1860, the slave population in Tennessee was approximately 275,719.
In the South, it was estimated that 350,000 slave owners held a significant number of slaves.
the white men benifitted, slave owners
Masters or just plain slave owners
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
About four million. There were also eight million whites in the slave states. The proportion of slaves in the populations of the slave states ranged from 13% in Maryland to 55% in Mississippi and 57% in South Carolina.By 1860, many southern slave owners and plantation owners owned less than 100 black slaves in their farming land.one out of three
Never mind, I found the answer myself. "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."