millions if people
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
The southerners viewed slaves as property.
the southerners viewed slaves as a good thing
798
fewer than 4%
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.
White southerners feared former slaves would try to encourage slave rebellions.
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.
few or no enslaved people at all
it emancipated many slaves
Southerners viewed slaves as property. The southerners defended this by saying that the Bible allowed for them to have slaves.