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While I appreciate the sentiment, this is factually incorrect. The majority of enslaved black folks were owned by a small minority who prided themselves on aristocratic sensibilities.


The 1860 census shows that in the states that would soon secede from the Union, an average of more than 32 percent of white families owned enslaved people. Some states had far more slave owners (46 percent of families in South Carolina, 49 percent in Mississippi) while some had far less (20 percent of families in Arkansas).
 
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