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What percentage of white southerners belonged to the plantation-owning class?
Roughly 25% of white southerners belonged to the plantation-owning class. These wealthy planters owned a majority of the South's slaves and held significant economic and political power in the region.
Southerners view of slaves?
The southerners viewed slaves as property.
How did the southerners view slaves?
the southerners viewed slaves as a good thing
What was the difference between white Southerners who owned slaves and those that did not?
Mainly money. Slaves were very expensive, and only wealthy persons typically owned slaves. However, some people simply felt that owning a slave was wrong.
Did all southerners own slaves?
no- slaves were too expensive for most people to own. Oddly though, most of the people who could not afford slaves supported the institution of slavery. They could look forward to moving up in the world someday and owning a slave or two.
How many southerners did not own slaves?
Fully 3/4 of southerners did not own slaves at the eve of the Civil War.
Most slaveowners treated their slaves as?
Southerners viewed slaves as property. The southerners defended this by saying that the Bible allowed for them to have slaves.
How many southerners owned 20 or more slave?
How many southerners owned 20 or more slaves
What did the southerners believe they must do when Lincoln was eleced?
The South believed they must seceed from the Union, in order to preserve their perceived right to maintain slaves
Southerners viewed slaves as?
filthy naggers
What percentage of southerners owned no slaves?
26%
What is Southerners like?
The southern colony had slaves.
