re: #81 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Well, many people within the Confederacy didn’t own slaves.

The typical small farmer was just a small land holder, having received land as part of the reward for military service, or just bought outright.

If you look in the census records, there were some people who owned a single slave. This would have been for general household duties. But again, most of people didn’t own slaves.

It was the large landowners, the rich, who needed slaves to work the hundreds of acres they owned on any given plantation. It was the rich who controlled the governments of these states, not the poor white people.

It’s one of the oldest gimmicks in the world - the rich getting the poor to do their work for them.