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False. In 1860 there were in the South (incl. the so called Border States) about 8,775,000 white inhabitants of which:

6 100 000 owned no slave,

1 400 000 owned between one and ten slaves,

300 000 owned between ten and twelve slaves,

200 000 owned more than twenty slaves.

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