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It was calculated that in the South in 1860, compared to a global population of about 8 million white and 200,000 free blacks, only 1,6 million where slave holders, of which:

1,4 million owned 1 to 10 slaves,

300,000 owned 11 to 20 slaves,

200,000 owned owned more than 20 slaves.

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