Only a small portion of Whites had field slaves. Only the elite Whites had slaves. Meanwhile, freed blacks were prolific slave holders, but the demographic who almost all had slaves wee jews.
CORRECTION: Only ELITE, WHITE, DEMOCRATS (aka, Dixiecrats), as well as several BLACK SLAVE OWNERS, owned slaves.
NO REPUBLICAN EVER OWNED A SLAVE(S)! NOT ONE!
Get it right, we have to be sure and SPECIFY exactly who we are talking about.
I cannot imagine any scenario where they were good workers or cost efficient.
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