[stand watie]

actually, the PERCENTAGE of slave-owners in BOTH regions of the antebellum USA were about equal = 5-6%.

the VAST majority of northerners couldn't have cared less about slavery. there is simply NO truth to you post. sorry, but that's FACT!

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[Tokra]

actually, the PERCENTAGE of slave-owners in BOTH regions of the antebellum USA were about equal = 5-6%. the VAST majority of northerners couldn't have cared less about slavery. there is simply NO truth to you post. sorry, but that's FACT!

I don't know where you are getting your "facts" - but I'm afraid you are delusional.

In the late 1700s the percentage of slave owners in South Carolina was 26%. The percentage of slave owners in Pennsylvania was less than 2%.

In 1790, Virginia and South Carolina the slave populations was over 45% of the total population.

In Mass. the number of slaves in 1790 was 1.4%, in NH it was 0.6%, in NY it was 7%, in Conn. it was 2.3%, in R.I. it was 6.3%, in Pa it was 2.4% and in Vermont it was 0.3%. Those numbers are a far cry from 45%.

All you have to do is look at the census figures for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, etc. The figues speak for themselves.