[golux]

In south Carolina close to 50% of families were slave owning families.

This left-wing "politi-fact" number is simply unbelievable.Perhaps if our Federal government had agreed to recompense slave-owners for their lost property as the British did we would not have fought such a terrible war "over slavery."

[Bull Snipe]

This left-wing “politi-fact” number is simply unbelievable.

From the 1860 Census, conducted per the Constitution of the United States, in South Carolina 45% of families owed at least one slave. In Mississippi the number of slave owning families rose to 49%. In the States of the Confederacy 5,580,000 people owed 3,500,000 slaves. Three out of four Southerners did not own any slaves.

[FLT-bird]

According to the 1860 US census, 5.73% of the total free population in the 12 seceding states owned slaves.....conversely, 94.37% did not own any slaves.

Again, this is according to the 1860 US Census.

[Waverunner]

Total US population in 1860 - 31 million
total slave owners - 385,000
so less than 2% of Americans owned slaves
( based on 1860’s census data)
Several places base figures on households vs number of slaves. A household in the 1860’s could easily be 8-12 people based on the extended family. This is where the higher percentages come from. counting households against slaves. bad statistical analysis.

[rockrr]

Perhaps if our Federal government had agreed to recompense slave-owners for their lost property as the British did we would not have fought such a terrible war "over slavery."

Lincoln proposed such an endeavor, first in Washington DC (the Compensated Emancipation Act was enacted on April 16, 1862), but slave owners weren't interested and the effort failed to gain traction.

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This left-wing "politi-fact" number is simply unbelievable.

Not really, in lowland South Carolina, free Whites tended to get slaves or get out. Slaveowners were rarer upcountry, but there were enough to make this a more or less believable statistic.