re: Only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves at the height of chattel slavery.

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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.

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It's a stupid thing to say, because you'd have to cut out the people who "owned" slaves essentially to free them, which is the excuse people like to use when the topic of black slave owners is brought up but is just as true for slave owners of other races.

I’ve got a family tree full of slave owners. Two of them directly involved in some pretty well known historical events tied to slavery in South Louisiana.
Wish I could tell you how this has made me fabulously wealthy today, 200 years later, but much to my dismay I’m just a middle class dude drawing a paycheck.

Wealth is gained/lost in single generations. Tell them to get a fricking job and remind them what century it is.

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Someone make a legitimate and logical argument for black Americans today asking/demanding and believing they are entitled to some form of reparations

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Probably has something to do with uncompensated contributions to GDP.

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Probably has something to do with uncompensated contributions to GDP.

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Doesn't exist.

Are we going to do reparations of non unionized child laborers?

I dont get paid based on my contribution to the GDP is, thats a ludicrous idea developed by college professors who needed to write a paper.

Every parent has uncompensated contribution to the GDP.

Almost every white person or Hispanic was exploited when they got off the boat.

Is their starvation wages more valuable than the room and board slaves got?

Free labor is cheaper by far than slave labor.
The wages then would go towards food and shelter, with no old age pension.

Death often came by 60 for the poor white immigrants, or they killed themselves when they became a burden.

The fact is that slave owners paid a significant amount towards the food, and board of their slaves. Even in many cases long into "retirement".

Just because they didnt have freedom doesnt mean they did not receive compensation.

In 1860 the US had a population of less than 32,000,000. Less than 10,000,000 people in the south that included around 3,900,000 slaves. Slaves made up 13% of the US population and 40% of the South population.

Out of the 6,000,000 non slaves 25% lived in poverty.

That leaves 4,500,000 people.

The average size of a white household was 5.5 people. That leaves around 820,000 households that could afford slaves.

394,000 households owned at least one slave

In the South just under 50% of the population not living in poverty owned a slave.

You could break it down 6,000,000 people by the size of the household and get 1,090,000 households. 394,000 people owned at least 1 slave, so that means around 40% of households had a slave.

32,000,000 Americans minus the 4,000,000 slaves equals 28,000,000.

28,000,000 divided by 5.5 per household and get 5,090,000 households. 394,000 households had at least one slave equals 7% of households in the US had at least one slave and around 40% in the South.

1.5% is just some made up number

In 1860 a little over 14% of the US was black and In 2023 14.4% was black. Not a big change in population percentage for black people. In 1860 85% of the US was white and in 2023 58%.

We had less than two dozen max. My wifes family probably had 1000s. (Big Tobacco planters) Probably 95% of slaves were owned by largest 5% plantations.

Go ahead and ask me who we bought them from? Some of these liberal Yankees needs to be careful with their bullshite about history or may need to post the fricking receipts. Those slave ships were mostly all owed by Yankees

I did training in Djibouti in 2013. The locals would wait for us to eat MREs and dig through our trash to get our scraps to eat.

Another stupid idea is that these "slaves" sold by their own people had it worse here than where they came from.

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Only 1.5% of Americans owned slaves at the height of chattel slavery.

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What percentage of slaves sold to the Americas was sold by black Africans vs white Africans? Shouldn't those who sold the slaves; black or white, be responsible for any reparations but only to current day people who were actually slaves? Let's narrow this thing down a bit.

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Out of the 6,000,000 non slaves 25% lived in poverty.

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Wow... talk about ahistoric lies.

There were no poverty definitions in 1860.

The poverty rate in the south in 1860 was MUCH higher if you want to use modern definitions.

The average wage for farm workers was about $10 a month in North Carolina in 1860.
78% of the state were laborers share croppers or farm workers.

Most of them would have been below the poverty line in the 1950s.

28% of free households there owned slaves.

Many people in the south had personal consumption lower than that of slaves on large plantations.