Curried Goats
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You only get 5% when you tie slave owning to individuals rather than families. Save your Lost Cause bullshit for the willfully ignorant you fail white.Your numbers are too high
A more accurate figure is 5% of soldiers in the Confederate Army owned slaves
Edit. Also did you bother to read that link? It contained this.
“That, however, does not tell us the extent of slave ownership. To better understand the extent of slavery’s impact, we need to realize a slave owner was the one person in a family who legally owned slaves. That person was usually the patriarch. There would be a spouse and sons and daughters who directly benefited from the family’s slave ownership and who stood to inherit enslaved people,” wrote
Mackey.
So, according to the Census of 1860, 30.8 percent of the free families in the confederacy owned slaves. That means that every third white person in those states had a direct commitment to slave