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Only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves at the height of chattel slavery.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:30 pm
Someone make a legitimate and logical argument for black Americans today asking/demanding and believing they are entitled to some form of reparations (even though 360k Union soldiers died ending chattel slavery) when only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves at the heights of chattel slavery.
From Google AI.........
Notice how Google Ai tries to dismiss the fact 1.5% of Americans ever owned slaves by stressing the majority of slaves were in the South? No shite Sherlock Google AI.
From Google AI.........
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During the antebellum period, the percentage of Americans who owned slaves varied significantly between the North and South. By 1860, on the eve of the Civil War, roughly 1.5% of the total U.S. population owned slaves. However, this number is misleading because slave ownership was almost exclusively concentrated in the southern slaveholding states, where the percentage was much higher.
Notice how Google Ai tries to dismiss the fact 1.5% of Americans ever owned slaves by stressing the majority of slaves were in the South? No shite Sherlock Google AI.
This post was edited on 10/23/25 at 7:34 pm
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Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:31 pm to Bass Tiger
You dont get to talk about slavery.
ETA: This was sarcasm.
ETA: This was sarcasm.
This post was edited on 10/24/25 at 6:47 am
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:33 pm to Bass Tiger
I’m surprised it’s even that high
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:34 pm to Bass Tiger
It's going to be a sad day when we see it happen.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:34 pm to Bass Tiger
And 2.5% of the American population died in the Civil War. And I can bet you that 1.5% wasn’t making up any part of that 2.5%!
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:35 pm to Bass Tiger
Learned the term chattel just now
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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I’m surprised it’s even that high
That's the point. The Dixiecrats have found a way to this day to convince black Americans all their grievances and crumbling family structure is due to chattel slavery that ended over 160 years ago.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:38 pm to Bass Tiger
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Only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves at the height of chattel slavery.
The nerve of you OP.
Don’t you even Narrative?
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:41 pm to Great Plains Drifter
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Only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves at the height of chattel slavery.
The nerve of you OP.
Don’t you even Narrative?
I think it illustrates the ignorance of black Americans to lump all white people into their grab bag for reparations.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:41 pm to Bass Tiger
Slaveowners were literally the 1% of society back then.
Yet every white person gets treated like they had their own personal slave.
Sounds discriminatory….
Yet every white person gets treated like they had their own personal slave.
Sounds discriminatory….
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:42 pm to Bass Tiger
Owning slaves would be akin to being on the Forbes 500 today
To my lone downvoter- boohoo your arse-pussy is a disgusting pit of misery and you will die alone
To my lone downvoter- boohoo your arse-pussy is a disgusting pit of misery and you will die alone
This post was edited on 10/24/25 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:44 pm to Pax Regis
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Slaveowners were literally the 1% of society back then.
Yet every white person gets treated like they had their own personal slave.
Sounds discriminatory….
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:48 pm to Bass Tiger
Curious how this is calculated. Obviously 4 year olds didn’t own slaves. A better measurement is by family, rather than every individual.
25-30% of families is pretty significant.
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In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War (around 1860), about 25–30% of white Southern households owned slaves, but the distribution was very uneven across states and classes: • Overall South: Roughly 8% of all American families (including Northern ones) and about 25% of white families in the South owned slaves. • Upper South (e.g., Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee): Ownership was lower — typically around 20% of white families. • Deep South (e.g., Mississippi, South Carolina): Ownership was much higher — around 45–50% of white families owned slaves. • Only about 1% of white Southerners owned 50 or more enslaved people — those were the large plantation elites who dominated the region’s politics and economy. So while slaveholding was concentrated among wealthier households, slavery itself shaped the entire Southern economy and social hierarchy — even non-slaveholding whites depended on it economically or socially.
25-30% of families is pretty significant.
This post was edited on 10/23/25 at 7:49 pm
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:54 pm to Bass Tiger
Percents were higher amongst free blacks.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:55 pm to Bass Tiger
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“Founding Fathers…more like Founding Crackers.”
I guarantee 0.0% of the race baiters on CNN & MSwhatever have absolutely no clue that it was George Washington himself as POTUS that signed the Slave Trade Act into federal law in 1794. Which made the building, leasing, or owning of ships used to traffic slaves a federal offense.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:56 pm to uziyourillusion
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Curious how this is calculated. Obviously 4 year olds didn’t own slaves. A better measurement is by family, rather than every individual.
quote:
In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War (around 1860), about 25–30% of white Southern households owned slaves, but the distribution was very uneven across states and classes: • Overall South: Roughly 8% of all American families (including Northern ones) and about 25% of white families in the South owned slaves. • Upper South (e.g., Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee): Ownership was lower — typically around 20% of white families. • Deep South (e.g., Mississippi, South Carolina): Ownership was much higher — around 45–50% of white families owned slaves. • Only about 1% of white Southerners owned 50 or more enslaved people — those were the large plantation elites who dominated the region’s politics and economy. So while slaveholding was concentrated among wealthier households, slavery itself shaped the entire Southern economy and social hierarchy — even non-slaveholding whites depended on it economically or socially.
25-30% of families is pretty significant.
I used Google AI and my assumption is it used the total number of adults in the US at the time of peak chattel slavery and that's where the 1.5% number came from.
Keep in mind the total number of Americans in the North during the 1860's was nearly 3 to 1 when compared to the South.
This post was edited on 10/23/25 at 7:58 pm
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:58 pm to Bass Tiger
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However, this number is misleading because slave ownership was almost exclusively concentrated in the southern slaveholding states, where the percentage was much higher.
Why doesn't it tell you what the percentage was? That AI sucks. It's like it's programmed to be misleading.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:58 pm to Bass Tiger
The notion that slavery “built” the United States is such a farce. While it did contribute to growth in the agrarian economy, the Civil War and Reconstruction inflicted devastating economic and social damage. It was the Industrial Revolution that truly transformed the nation, creating the foundation for modern America.
Posted on 10/23/25 at 7:59 pm to uziyourillusion
Where are you pulling that from because everything I have ever read or seen. Using tax and census data, outs the number between 10-12% of southerns owned slaves.
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