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So you're saying that slavery only counts if they're imported (your 300k)? Being born a slave is not a problem (ceejayoz's 4M)?

And seriously, does it matter if it was 5% or 30% that owned slaves, if 65% of the population were slaves themselves?




I am saying none of that.

Slavery was horrible. And American people fought a bloody war so it could be abolished.

All I am doing is I am setting some perspective. As some people on the left engage in fallacy that every single white person owes them something because some of their ancestors may have been slaves.

Slave population in 1860 was 12%, 65% was for a single state, that was an outlier.




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