What percentage of white people owned slaves in the US during 1800's?

[Pervis]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

 

[Busta Carmichael]

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[CeLLaR-DooR]

This your homework bruh?

Question seven got him stumped

 

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[playmaker88]

not many.

 

[kzzl]

An old adage is to note the most common last names among black people.

Williams, Smiths, Thomas, and etc.

It was a common practice to identify slaves by the families that owned them.

 

[So ILL]

Enough to where white people can kiss my ass when they tell us to get over slavery since we weren't alive then. Your pasty-ass is still eating from it's plate, so fuck you.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

It's probably not a very high number. The majority of slaves were owned by a few rich plantation owners.

 

[jono]

It wasn't a lot of them, not even most. Like all times in human history slavery was a luxury for the rich.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

While what you're saying is true, it does make a difference if you're a person that is actively participating in something vs a person that is just living your life while something happens to be happening. The white racist institution is responsible for pretty much every bad thing that has happened to blacks in this country, but that doesn't mean every white person bears all the responsibility for those things.

 

[Pervis]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

i get what you mean breh but it does matter for me cuz I need an actual statistic. its very important that i get this right. i looked online but just cant find anything except long, long essays and shit.

 

[lamontbdc]

this seems like something that you won't find a concrete answer on

I would if possible look up the percentage of what then would considered the top 1% and just conclude that they all owned slaves.

 

[Stiff]

1.4% of white people actually owned slaves at the height of slavery. Lemme put you on game though
http://www.google.com

When you first get there it looks simple, but trust me it ain't no hoe.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

While what you're saying is true, it does make a difference if you're a person that is actively participating in something vs a person that is just living your life while something happens to be happening. The white racist institution is responsible for pretty much every bad thing that has happened to blacks in this country, but that doesn't mean every white person bears all the responsibility for those things.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Yes, and there were plenty of white abolitionists. I mean you don't think slaveowners gave up because they suddenly got consciences do you? Slavery was abolished because white people (after being prodded by people like Frederick Douglas) began to stand up against the institution.

But you can expect every person to stand up and be an activist. Everybody should stand for some kind of cause, but not everybody is going to be a major force for every cause.

 

[CracceR]

7%

 

[Will Munny]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

Shit dumb poor whites who couldn't even afford slaves went to war to keep slaves as slaves so they could stay off the bottom wrung of the latter.

 

[The Lonious Monk]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

While what you're saying is true, it does make a difference if you're a person that is actively participating in something vs a person that is just living your life while something happens to be happening. The white racist institution is responsible for pretty much every bad thing that has happened to blacks in this country, but that doesn't mean every white person bears all the responsibility for those things.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Yes, and there were plenty of white abolitionists. I mean you don't think slaveowners gave up because they suddenly got consciences do you? Slavery was abolished because white people (after being prodded by people like Frederick Douglas) began to stand up against the institution.

But you can expect every person to stand up and be an activist. Everybody should stand for some kind of cause, but not everybody is going to be a major force for every cause.

Slavery ended to preserve the Union and the Economy of the North...

Most vocal abolishinists where northeners in free states and they werent many...

lol @ Slavery ending to preserve the Union when ending slavery was literally the thing that destroyed the Union.

 

[jono]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

While what you're saying is true, it does make a difference if you're a person that is actively participating in something vs a person that is just living your life while something happens to be happening. The white racist institution is responsible for pretty much every bad thing that has happened to blacks in this country, but that doesn't mean every white person bears all the responsibility for those things.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Yes, and there were plenty of white abolitionists. I mean you don't think slaveowners gave up because they suddenly got consciences do you? Slavery was abolished because white people (after being prodded by people like Frederick Douglas) began to stand up against the institution.

But you can expect every person to stand up and be an activist. Everybody should stand for some kind of cause, but not everybody is going to be a major force for every cause.

Slavery ended to preserve the Union and the Economy of the North...

Most vocal abolishinists where northeners in free states and they werent many...

What southern state you from? This some shit that comes straight from Neo-con history classes

 

[Stiff]

thank you for the reply, fortyacres. if i'm reading this right, that quote shows that slaves constituted 12.6% of the total US population, but I was trying to find out what percentage of the white population in the USA owned slaves. i hope i'm reading that right anyway

does it really matter? , if most of the black population were slaves regardless of the number of white households that "owned" them.

Even those families/households that didnt or couldnt own slaves benefitted from the instituation immensely and were complicit in the practice directly or indirectly.

While what you're saying is true, it does make a difference if you're a person that is actively participating in something vs a person that is just living your life while something happens to be happening. The white racist institution is responsible for pretty much every bad thing that has happened to blacks in this country, but that doesn't mean every white person bears all the responsibility for those things.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Yes, and there were plenty of white abolitionists. I mean you don't think slaveowners gave up because they suddenly got consciences do you? Slavery was abolished because white people (after being prodded by people like Frederick Douglas) began to stand up against the institution.

But you can expect every person to stand up and be an activist. Everybody should stand for some kind of cause, but not everybody is going to be a major force for every cause.

Slavery ended to preserve the Union and the Economy of the North...

Most vocal abolishinists where northeners in free states and they werent many...

lol @ Slavery ending to preserve the Union when ending slavery was literally the thing that destroyed the Union.

no it wasn't. the southern states seceded from the union before there were any substantive talks of abolition. they left because of the THREAT of eventual abolition from a newly elected northern president who they didn't like (lincoln)

 

[2stepz_ahead]

An old adage is to note the most common last names among black people.

Williams, Smiths, Thomas, and etc.

It was a common practice to identify slaves by the families that owned them.

Jenkins?