This is the biggest lie told about slavery. Only the head of household owned slaves. Families had 5 or 6 kids so many times more people lived with slaves than "owned" slaves. My dad did lots of work on our family tree - Texas - Louisiana - Florida - Georgia, and it is plain to see from the census that about 1 house in 4 had slaves.
My Mouton family in Louisiana was among the biggest holders so I'm not excusing it but this is a fine example of how to lie by telling part of the truth.
How are they lying? Clearly they only mention ownership of slaves. Ownership and living with slaves are not equal by any definition.
My original ancestor to this country settled in Virginia in 1692 and following generations moved to Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Missouri. I cannot find a record of even one of them owning a slave. I suspect it was because they were too poor as they were mostly small farmers and some share croppers. Being southerners they fought on the side of the confederacy.
I’m not ashamed of that. They fought and died for a cause they believed in.
On my mother’s side I am a direct descendant of John Brown - I’m not ashamed of that either.