On Thursday 10 April 2008 18:34:25 ken barber wrote:
> deri's percentages shows a extraordinary number of
> rich people in the souther states. i find it
> questionable that in the 1850-1860's time frame that
> they were that many rich people.: i think in one state
> nearly 49 % of a state being rich? i do not know his
> sources but those per cents are very questionable. and
> when i say rich i mean rich. you had to be very
> wealthy to own a slave. i find the term own a slave to
> be offensive just to use it, but, i know not how to
> convey it differently.
Ken,
The sources for the percentages I quoted was in the post (did you read the
article? It was by a History professor with 46 bibliographical references at
the end).
If you read the article you'll probably see the figures seem to come from
James D. B. De Bow who was superintendent of the 1850 national census and was
quoted in "The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder. 1860
Association. Tract No. 5 (Charleston, 1860), 3-4."
Cheers
Deri
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