Southern whites were reluctant to emancipate their slaves because slaves were their livelihood. Slaves did all the dirty work such as farming and house hold chores.
6,100,000 Southern people owned no slaves.
64%
25% of southern white families owned slaves in 1860
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.
The different groups that made up Southern society include,the planters, the yeomen farmers, the poor whites, the slaves, and free African Americans.
6,100,000 Southern people owned no slaves.
64%
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.
25% of southern white families owned slaves in 1860
Whites without slaves.(50%)
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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.
South Carolina and Mississippi.
they thought freed slaves would seek revenge.
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.
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Southern whites feared that freed blacks would seek revenge for past treatment as slaves.