Yeah, what percentage of the free, adult Southern population owned slaves?
4% Max
Interesting. We were never taught this in school (gee, that's a surprise). I always had the impression it was at least a very large minority.
Do you have a source for that?
I remember being taught that in school.
Yawn.
Um, okay. It isn't in my text book.
What do you mean "yawn?"
I'd imagine that most textbooks, when discussing the slave-ownership in the south would probably mention percentages somewhere.
And by "yawn" I mean that your comparison between economic taxation and physical slavery is absurd.
I just looked and my AP US History textbook has no mention of percentages. It says "a sizable minority of landowning males also owned slaves".
Even if you used one of the left-leaning textbooks (which one did you use, BTW?) I remember my teacher (A bush-disliking Rockefeller Republican) made it clear to us the small percentage of actual slave-owners.