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What percentage of Southern families owned large plantations in the U.S.?

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what percentage of southern families owned large plantations in the u s

According to the 1860 census, only 4 percent of the white population of the South owned plantations large enough to be farmed by 20 or more slaves.

About 1 percent owned plantations needing 50 or more slaves.

Seventy-five percent of white families owned no slaves.

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