Less Than 2% Of People In The US Owned Slaves DEBUNKED

This video will comprehensively debunk the extraordinarily deceptive "less than 2% of people owned slaves" statistic. The definitive lying versions of this statistic include: "less than 2% of whites owned slaves" "only 2% of southerners owned slaves" "only 2% of white southerners owned slaves" "less than 2% of southerners owned slaves" "less than 2% of whites were slave holders," etc.

We break down the importance of asking "the when, the where, and the who" of this statistic.

We cover how roughly 5.7% of free people (almost all were whites) owned slaves in the South. We cover how suspected white supremacists purposefully add the much more abundant numbers of white and non-white people from the north, as well as the non-white slaves themselves, to torture the numbers to say 2% of people owned slaves in the entirety of the USA.

When we cover "the who," we look into how the census data was actually collected and point out that only the heads of households were counted as owners. Others simply benefited from the property that someone else owned (on paper). We point out the fact that households in the 1850s had an average of 6.2 people. Even if every Household in 1850 (white, black, and other), in the north and the south, owned a slave, you’d still be able to state that “Less than 17% of People owned slaves.”

Also, as a white person, it didn't matter if you owned a slave yourself or not because you could rent slaves. Mining companies and railroad companies were infamous for renting slaves.

And just in case the North wants to pretend like it was free from critique: The North was built on the backs of slaves- especially places like New York City and Boston. Slaves built ships, worked in the shipyards, cleared the forests and swamps, worked the plantations, built the infrastructure, built much of the important architecture that still stands to this day, and worked in and out of the households of northern slave owners. After slavery was "abolished" in the North, slavery in the South continued to build up the North. Nearly every industry, including banks, insurance companies, manufacturing companies, etc. benefited from free slave labor.

The North was complicit in the peculiar practice of slavery, and they themselves had some slavery going on well up until the Civil War. The fugitive slave law was federal and was often used as a means to enslave or reenslave Black people in the North.

The North could also theoretically have as many slaves as it wanted in its territory. This was reinforced by the Dred Scott decision, which was about a slave who lived in the state of Illinois.

In conclusion, the two percent lie can be easily debunked when you dig into the details.

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