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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
A quarter of white families in states allowing slavery owned at least 1 slave.
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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
What's your source for information? And what time frame are you covering? What is the percentage of black/mixed race slaveholders at the time? I've seen the 25% figure banded about in research, but have had trouble sometimes pinning down the specifics of the statement. ( And 25% still means 75% of families DID NOT own even one slave.)
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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
I had seen that number in this thread and repeated it.
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It was me,
here in post #16. I got the info
here. I'll admit that I haven't compared this to the census records themselves, which I can only find on a county by county basis.