Did most people in the south own slaves
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Confederate-themed posts are cropping up on social media in the wake of the Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Va.
The march was sparked by efforts to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and included some marchers carrying Confederate symbols.
One viral post sent to us by a reader said, "At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books doesn’t tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year.
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