"Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,"

You make a good point.

say can you tell me what percent of southern families owned slaves?

You're right and it turns out the plantation owners you think were common in the south were about 1% of white people in the south.

the about 24% more owned slaves but they were for the most part less than three and they lived and worked in the same home as the owners.

the important thing to remember is that while rich people owned slaves a clear majority of white house holds in the old south didn't and didn't benefit from slavery either since slave labor was their competition.

Now are my numbers off?

maybe I didn't use AI today I used my memory.

You want to correct me go ahead.

I'm talking about an proto-Orwellian society where any white man who spoke out against slavery could die vanish or be financially ruined overnight.

They literally compelled poor white to be part of slave patrols in part because they knew this would make them all morally compromised.

You know who didn't have to patrol?

rich slave owners.

This isn't a capitalism matter this is a matter of people not knowing their history because it's convenient to pretend like every white person in the south lived in a mansion supported by hundreds of slaves when that simply wasn't true.

Even going to the wind did the non-slave owning majority of families dirty.