At the dawn of the Civil War, African American slaves made up what percentage of the South's population?

Not even a quarter of Southern whites had slaves, despite slaves making up a third of the Southern population at 3 or 4 million people. It was the wealthiest Southern whites and landowners that held a large share of slaves, with wealthy cotton planter, Stephen Duncan, owning over 1,000.

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