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Tonight’s topic: Slavery

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Time for our next game of #StumpARepublican - the finest Twitter trivia game to ever stump a Republican!

>>> According to the 1860 Census, what percent of Southerners owned slaves?

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HINT #1

There is a strong, persistent myth pushed by historical revisionists and slavery apologists about slave holding in the Southern states and confederacy.

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Hint #2

Here’s a map showing the distribution of the slave population of the southern states of the United States. Compiled from the census of 1860.

Source: Library of Congress

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Final hint!

Apologists on slavery and the confederacy push a pervasive false narrative that only the wealthiest 1% in the South owned slaves. The actual number is much higher.

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Over 30% of Southerners owned slaves. The slave population was over 57% in South Carolina where the first traitorous shots were fired on American troops.

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