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Position:Home>History> What percentage of people...?Question: What percentage of people!.!.!.!? I read a post somewhere that was talking about the percentage of confederate citizens that owned slaves during the civil war!. Someone had said that only 5% of citizens in the confederacy owned one or more slaves!. That would mean that 95% of people in the confederacy owned no slaves!. However, I do not believe this is true and I would like to know the correct number!. 10 pts to the first answerer that lists his/her source!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: It all depends where in the Confederate States you're looking because it mainly had to do with plantations!. The more and the bigger the plantations, the more slaves!. The States of the deep South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) had the greatest concentration of plantations and therefore more slaves!. The upper South slave states of Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee had fewer plantations and the border states had fewer plantations still The percentage of Southern families that owned slaves was 36!.7 percent in the lower South, 25!.3 percent in the upper South and 15!.9 percent in the border states (who fought mostly for the Union)!. Found this in http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/United_Stat!.!.!. (in the part under "Slavery") Another website http://videoindex!.pbs!.org/resources/civi!.!.!. has a different calculation and I guess that's where somenoe might get the 5% from: Twenty-two million people lived in the North in twenty-three states (three million of them in border states)!. Nine million people lived in the eleven Confederate states!. Of the nine million, three and a half million were slaves!. One hundred twenty-five thousand free blacks lived in the South!. There were four million slaves in the United States in 1860, ninety percent of whom were in the South, owned by 350,000 slave-holders!. There were 347,525 slave-holders in the South altogether!. The figure of 310,200 for the Confederate states is an estimate!. These numbers illustrate the dramatic inequality of the South's "peculiar institution:" 5,140,000 Non-slave-holding population of the slave states 3,500,000 Number of slaves in the slave states 310,000 Slave holding population in the slave states (17!.34% of the Confederate population) Calculating the 9 million people living in the (eleven) Confederate States, with 350,000 slave-holders, 3 1/2 million slaves and 125,000 free black people makes it that 15!.36% of the total population of the Confederate States held slaves ( 9 million - 3 1/2 million - 125,000= 5,375,000 divided by 350,000 slave-holders)!. Of course this is an average for all 11 Confederate States!. I hope this helps you out!?Www@QuestionHome@Com 20%!. Have a nice day!.Www@QuestionHome@Com 20 percentWww@QuestionHome@Com Two things you've got to take into account!. The first is the white population of the south, the second is the white population that were actually slave holders!. About 59!.9% of the South in 1860 was white (or about 5,447,220)!. Of this number, only about 306,300 were slaveholders!. Divide 306,300 by 5,447,220 and the result is 0!.056230517585116811878352627578838, which rounded to the nearest hundredth would be 0!.06 or 6% considering percentages actually go up to 100% and thereby you divide a number by 100 to actually get what percentage of a hundred that number is in decimal format!. 6 divided by 100 is 0!.06!. No this percentage does not include all slaveholders in 1860, only those in the future Confederate States of AmericaWww@QuestionHome@Com |