In 1860, the total free population of the United States and its territories was 27,489,561. A total of 393,975 people owned 3,953,760 slaves. That's 1.4% of the population that owned slaves, with an average of 10 slaves per owner.
However, if you exclude the North where slavery was illegal and just look at the states where it was allowed, you have 393,975 people in the southern United States owning 3,950,546 slaves, out of a total non-slave population of 8,280,490. That's 4.8%, or one in twenty.
Also, note that the total number of households in the Southern states was 1,466,192. If we assume that all the slaves in a household were owned in the name of the property owner — which is probably not 100% true, but close enough to give a good idea — then 27% of the households in the South owned slaves. So roughly one in four.
This percentage varied by area: in Mississippi 49% of white families owned slaves whereas in Maryland only 12% of them did so.
I absolutely love my cousins and aunts fam and are way closer to them than I are to my sister. Most people don't know that I am close to them tho, my sister doesn't either but I talk with my cousin every day and enjoy my time with them way more than I do with my sister. She isn't the nicest person and has a huge ego so most of the time she doesn't realise her own faults. Not saying it's the same for you. You sister might just be a fake person who wants people to think she is better off than she is. Either way, fuck her, most of the time family doesn't mean shit unfortunately. You can't have a good relationship with someone who doesn't want one.
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My mom is nicer to my cousin than she is to me because my mom abused me and she knows I am angry at her and might not take care of her when she is old but since my cousin has never seen my mom abusing her family behind closed doors, my cousin might be naive enough tho believe my mom deserves her help.
no idea; why don't you ask her?
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