• Imperious_melange@lemmy.world
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        Just for reference the /s is an internet wide symbol for sarcasm aka I’m joking. Near its peak (1860) about 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. In the states where slavery was legal, approximately 25% of all white households owned at least one enslaved person, and in the Deep South, this figure approached 50%. So yeah states rights to own slaves.

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          You’re good lol I was just riffing. I appreciate the sincere explanation though /gen /pos 😄