re: Interesting facts about slavery I'll bet you didn't know.

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He does nor even make the list of the 100 largets slaveowners in SC ... just ONE of the slave states. Nationally. he MAY have been in the top thousand.

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The first part is not true.

And I don't know why you're shitting on the guy for not just sticking to facts when you're just throwing out assumptions with your 'may' comment.

Why not stick with objective fact, rather than lies and half-truths?

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I have seen the data in the past, but cannot locate it this morning. cursory search did find this site, which seems to list the largest slaveowners in a single Mississippi county.

That one county had 15 persons who owned more slaves than Ellison. If we extrapolate that figure to the 82 counties in Mississsippi, we get an estinate of approximately 1200 persons in Mississippi alone who owned more slaves than Ellison. If we extrapolate that figure across the 11 Confederate states, we get a VERY rough estimate of 13,000 persons who owned more slaves than Ellison.

These figures are probably a bit high due to the higher slavery rates in Mississippi versus some other Southern states, but it certainly looks reasonable to say that there were at
least 1,000 folks nationwide who owned more slaves than Ellison.

South Carolina is actually the only state that had a higher slavery rates than Mississippi, and the two states had approximately the same populations in 1860. As such, it also seems reasonable to interpolate that there were about 1200 slaveholders larger than Ellison in SC alone.