>most of the people working on farms were slaves This is false. 90% of the US were farmers. This is going to be subsistence farmers and people who own farms, s

>most of the people working on farms were slaves This is false. 90% of the US were farmers. This is going to be subsistence farmers and people who own farms, sharecroppers, etc. The highest rate of slavery was around 10% of the total population, as the northern states had higher populations, though some individual states had very high rates of slavery. https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/statistics_on_slavery.htm https://faculty.weber.edu/kmackay/statistics_on_slavery.htm