re: I blame The South for Confederate nescience

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There are disputed numbers. But no more than 25% by 1861.

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Including the Northern border states, that dragged that number down, that's true. But in Mississippi and South Carolina that number was about 50%, and the 50% that didn't own slaves were generally too poo to. To act as if slavery wasn't integral to almost everyone in the Deep South's way of life is beyond asinine. When people like Sleeping Tiger say things like "96% of people didn't own slaves" I just can't take them seriously. In South Carolina and Mississippi, half of the families owned slaves, and the other half wished they did. It's just laughable that people say the Civil War wasn't about slavery.