Do You Support Slavery in the American South?

[Jake]

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.

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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".