No. of Families No. of Slaves Percent

1,733 100 or more 49 6,196 50-99 1.7 29, 733 20-49 8.5 54, 595 10-19 15.7 80,765 5-9 23.3 105,683 2-4 30.4 68,820 1 19.8

6,120,825 southern whites (75 percent of the population) owned no slaves.

Source.

U S Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970 (Washington, DC US Government Printing Office, 1976)