Almost all? I don't believe you, nor your footnote-less source. Name ten.
I'm not the OP, but Jewish merchants and plantation owners were disproportionate in terms of how many slaves they owned and how many ships they ran. "Almost all" is horse shit, but there were many.
As an example, the vice president of the Confederacy was Judah Benjamin.
Hah, there is a Wikipedia category "Jewish-American Slave Owners" though I imagine it needs fleshed out a bit.
Only a single digit percentage of people did
I don't know about that either. It was relatively common in the south to have a single house slave. The plantations we think of with 100s of slaves were very rare.
Ah can assure you, we didn't have no fuckin house niggers, and this defamation needs to fucking stop. MAYBE, if you're talking about soft southern lords in Charleston, Atlanta, etc. but Appalachia couldn't afford to feed themselves let alone a whole ass human.
Certainly much rarer, and the majority of the population of the south was absolutely poor whites who couldn't afford slaves.
A big chunk of my family comes from Appalachia since late 1700s/early 1800s. I did some genealogy work, read some old family diaries, etc. They lived rough, hard lives. One young man's diary talked about how when he woke up in some winter mornings in their house, the windows and walls were so poorly sealed that his sheets would be covered in a layer of snow. Another young girl was playing with her sister and they both got trampled by a (horse drawn) wagon. Her sister died. One man lost six brothers in three days of fighting at Gettysburg. Alcoholics. Starvation. Disease. Rough shit.
I found one reference to a slave in all the reading and genealogy I did (spanning ~100 years).
I'm not the OP, but Jewish merchants and plantation owners were disproportionate in terms of how many slaves they owned and how many ships they ran. "Almost all" is horse shit, but there were many.
As an example, the vice president of the Confederacy was Judah Benjamin.
Hah, there is a Wikipedia category "Jewish-American Slave Owners" though I imagine it needs fleshed out a bit.
I don't know about that either. It was relatively common in the south to have a single house slave. The plantations we think of with 100s of slaves were very rare.
Ah can assure you, we didn't have no fuckin house niggers, and this defamation needs to fucking stop. MAYBE, if you're talking about soft southern lords in Charleston, Atlanta, etc. but Appalachia couldn't afford to feed themselves let alone a whole ass human.
Certainly much rarer, and the majority of the population of the south was absolutely poor whites who couldn't afford slaves.
A big chunk of my family comes from Appalachia since late 1700s/early 1800s. I did some genealogy work, read some old family diaries, etc. They lived rough, hard lives. One young man's diary talked about how when he woke up in some winter mornings in their house, the windows and walls were so poorly sealed that his sheets would be covered in a layer of snow. Another young girl was playing with her sister and they both got trampled by a (horse drawn) wagon. Her sister died. One man lost six brothers in three days of fighting at Gettysburg. Alcoholics. Starvation. Disease. Rough shit.
I found one reference to a slave in all the reading and genealogy I did (spanning ~100 years).