I am continuing my examination of amateur filmmaker, Andrew Ravich’s claim that “30% of Southerners owned slaves” or is it “less than 3%?”

You can download and listen to Andrew’s claims in the video link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZDxu0APt9g&list=PLwCiRao53J1y_gqJJOH6Rcgpb-vaW9wF0&index=1&t=59s

Today, I exam what percentage of the FREE POPULATION, including those in all 34 States, 7 territories, and the federal District of Columbia were slaveholding.

SOURCES:

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/08/07/percent-of-whites-owned-slaves/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/16/fact-check-social-media-post-underrepresents-slave-ownership-1860/7980243002/

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/24/viral-image/viral-post-gets-it-wrong-extent-slavery-1860/

University of Minnesota’s Public Database containing the data from the 1860 Census:

https://www.nhgis.org/

For the TOTAL POPULATION of EACH STATE in 1860:

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/statistics/1860d-13.pdf

For the TOTAL NUMBER of enslaved persons in each STATE in 1860:

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/agriculture/1860b-09.pdf

For the TOTAL NUMBER of FAMILIES in each STATE in 1860:

https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1860/population/1860a-02.pdf