In 1850 there were 347,000 families that owned slaves, but only one third of them owned over 10 slaves. Three fourths of the white Southerners didn’t even own any slaves. Most of the Southerners owned only a small farm which they could tend themselves and was just enough food for their family and a small surplus.
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Herman J. Viola
Copyright: 1998
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