The average person didn't own slaves, only the rich owned slaves.actually, by the time of the civil war, the vast majority of soldiers that fought for the confederacy didn't own slaves, but the rich business owners and many politicians did. A very sad time In deed.
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The number of slaves that a slave owner owned depended on the size of his plantation. He may have owned a dozen or so, or he may have owned hundreds of slaves.
No. There were free blacks who were slave owners, and Indians too.
it was the practice of many slave owners to choose a new first name for their slaves and use their own last name to show ownership.
It doesn't matter how many slaves the man owned because that probably changed every week! What matters is that he had slaves in the first place and that he agreed with slavery. WHICH IS WRONG!
more likely to own slaves
few or no enslaved people at all