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What fraction of southern whites owned no slaves?
6,100,000 Southern people owned no slaves.
What percentage of southern whites did not own slaves in 1830?
64%
How many whites owned slaves in 1860?
25% of southern white families owned slaves in 1860
What percent owned fewer than 5 slaves?
Of all the slaves owned forty-nine percent owned fewer than 5 slaves. Only five percent of Southern whites lived in a home that owned slaves. Which equals out to twenty-five percent of whites owned slaves.
What different groups made up southern society?
The different groups that made up Southern society include,the planters, the yeomen farmers, the poor whites, the slaves, and free African Americans.
What fraction of southern whites owned no slaves?
6,100,000 Southern people owned no slaves.
What percentage of southern whites did not own slaves in 1830?
64%
What percent of southern whites owned fewer than 5slaves?
Around 75% of southern whites owned fewer than five slaves. The majority of white southerners owned no slaves at all, as slaves were primarily held by a small percentage of wealthy plantation owners.
How many whites owned slaves in 1860?
25% of southern white families owned slaves in 1860
What was the largest segment of southern society during the civil war?
Whites without slaves.(50%)
How did southern whites limit the freedom of former slaves?
i dont know but you stink like poo
What percent owned fewer than 5 slaves?
Of all the slaves owned forty-nine percent owned fewer than 5 slaves. Only five percent of Southern whites lived in a home that owned slaves. Which equals out to twenty-five percent of whites owned slaves.
Which two southern states held more slaves than whites in population?
South Carolina and Mississippi.
Why did southern whites discourage freeing slavees after the revolution?
they thought freed slaves would seek revenge.
Why did Most Southern whites not own slaves but still supported the slave system?
Most Southern whites, even if they didn't own slaves themselves, supported the slave system because they believed it reinforced their social status and economic well-being. They also perceived slaves as essential to the Southern economy and saw slavery as a fundamental part of their way of life and culture. Additionally, many non-slaveholding whites subscribed to the racial hierarchy that justified and maintained the institution of slavery.
Why do you think it was still possible for southern whites to treat freed slaves so badly?
Habit, bigotry, ignorance.
What was one reason southern states passed laws after 1800 to discourage manumission?
Southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for past treatment as slaves.
