Quote Originally Posted by redrumracer
if you knew your history then you would actually know that MOST of the people were against slavery. yes its true, go look it up. there were VERY FEW slave owners. its just that the ones that did own slaves had ALOT of slaves.




This is true.



There were very few slave owners in relation to the overall population of the South, but the ones that did own them were VERY rich and VERY powerful when it came to Southern Politics.


The average white man was definately racist to a degree back in the 1850's and 60's but did not own a single slave.