3. Only 1.4% of white americans owned slaves at the peak of slavery in the USA. Mea...

Only 1.4% of white americans owned slaves at the peak of slavery in the USA. Meanwhile 28% of free blacks in the USA were estimated to own slaves

CLAIM: ONLY 1.4% OF ALL CAUCASIAN PEOPLE IN AMERICA OWNED SLAVES

From the 1860 United States Census
Number of slaveholders in 1860: 393,975
Number of white people in the U.S.: 26,922,537

393975/26922537 = 1.46%

Case closed?

Well, there were 26,922,537 white people in the United States, but that includes North and South, men, women, and children. Typically, the slaves in a family were all owned by the head of the household.

Again, looking at the 1860 census, we find that 26% of families in the South and border states owned slaves.

State Total Population Total No. of Slaves No. of Families Total Free Population Total No. of Slaveholders Percent of Families Owning Slaves
Alabama 964,201 435,080 96,603 529,121 33,730 35%
Arkansas 435,450 111,115 57,244 324,335 11,481 20%
Florida 140,424 61,745 15,090 78,679 5,152 34%
Delaware 112,216 1,798 18,966 110,418 587 3%
Georgia 1,057,286 462,198 109,919 595,088 41,084 37%
Kentucky 1,155,684 225,483 166,321 930,201 38,645 23%
Louisiana 708,002 331,726 74,725 376,276 22,033 29%
Maryland 687,049 87,189 110,278 599,860 13,783 12%
Mississippi 791,305 436,631 63,015 354,674 30,943 49%
Missouri 1,182,012 114,931 192,073 1,067,081 24,320 13%
North Carolina 992,622 331,059 125,090 661,563 34,658 28%
South Carolina 703,708 402,406 58,642 301,302 26,701 46%
Tennessee 1,109,801 275,719 149,335 834,082 36,844 25%
Texas 604,215 182,566 76,781 421,649 21,878 28%
Virginia 1,596,318 490,865 201,523 1,105,453 52,128 26%
TOTAL 12,240,293 3,950,511 1,515,605 8,289,782 393,967 26%
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