Relatively few southerners owned 95% of slaves. The "average southerner" owned zero.
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∙ 2008-10-17 13:49:44No slaves did not get paid they just got treated badly!
the slaves were in the civil war because the war was about freedom
Before the war: The immigrants were probably buyin' or sellin' slaves. After the war: The immigrants were probably runin' away from slavery or escapin' their country because there was slaves there.
Planters (the Plantocracy) Poor white trash Slaves
There were about 4 million slaves in the south during the time of the Civil War.
At the end of the US Civil War there were no slaves, they had all been freed during the war and by the fact that the South lost the war. Thus your question makes no sense and can not be answered.
A confederate.
The southerners give up 20 slaves for exemption, like the northerners gives up $300 for exemption
Slaves had no rights - they were considered "property"
Johnny Reb
No, he was born in Ohio, a northern state. The first southerner president after the Civil War is Woodrow Wilson.
embarraseed and small
before the end of civil war yea
No
No slaves did not get paid they just got treated badly!
About 25-30% of white southern families owned slaves on the eve of the Civil War.
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