I’ll try to address your questions.
It makes no sense to talk about the percentage of all Americans who owned slaves, since slavery at this time (1860 census) was found only in the South, taking the South to mean the slave states, which included four that stayed in the Union. Lumping in the population of northern states, where there weren’t any slaves, is only reasonable if your are trying to artificially reduce the percentage.
It also, IMO, makes no sense to talk about percentage of individuals that owned slaves, since their families benefited equally from the ownership. So if you want to talk about percentage of adult white males that owned slaves, or percentage of white families that owned slaves, we can get somewhere.
Otherwise, there’s no point talking about statistics that aren’t the relevant ones.
Your ignoring the facts presented in the articles I posted. That tells me that you are afraid to see something that will prove your assumptions are based on false history.
You’ve proved to me that you are not worth the time to debate with you. You ask for proof and I provide a sample. You provide one article taken from a census. I did the same. The data I provided was with the expectation you would open your mind to something that you obviously wish to ignore.
I’m done. You’ve shown yourself to be less than honest when you ask for proof and then ignore it out of fear it will show you something you would rather ignore and not admit to.
You say it makes no sense to talk about “all American’s who owned slaves”? Why not? They were slave owners right?
Maybe you just wish to parse out what you don’t want to acknowledge. That’s how it appears. You can ignore facts of history all you wish and stay in the dark. That is a very liberal way to discuss history. Ignore what you don’t like and only focus on those things that feed into your assumptions.