If you notice..THAT is the number of slaves...NOT slave OWNERS....
Besides, does this mean you are OK with northern state slave owners??? You didn’t put them in...
In 79 you urged a poster to examine the PRIMARY cause of the Civil War. I responded in 111, “The primary cause, as enunciated by the slaver’s themselves, was the Peculiar Institution. All other considerations took a far distant second place to slavery.”
You responded in 114 that “...the percentage of Americans who owned slaves at just under 5%.” I recognize that your response was a non sequitur but I responded with statistics showing the southern states percentage closer to 33%. The percentage of northern slave holders in a860 was less than 1%.
The south freaked out over an election because they spooked themselves into believing that Lincoln would somehow take their slaves away. The south went to war to protect slavery.