> Slave owners in the south were a very small percentage of the population. This is an especially pernicious lie. A very small percentage owned vast plantatio

> Slave owners in the south were a very small percentage of the population. This is an especially pernicious lie. A very small percentage owned vast plantations with hundreds of slaves, but the deeper into the south you went the higher the percentage of slave owners. 32% of all households in the south owned slaves. 49% of all Mississippi households and 46% of all in South Carolina households owned slaves. A slave was an aspirational purchase in the south; for those households that did not own a slave it was more likely to be due to poverty than principles.