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**Pateeffelty** · 12-30-2011, 04:55 PM

Why are you posting the percentage of the population that was enslaved? Were slaves more likely to be slave owners than non-slaves?

Because its crappy revisionist wordplay talking about the number of 'slaveholders' as a proportion of the population. The only figures that matters a damn is the number of actual slaves, and the effect they had on the economy of the state. Texas was a nasty slave state that as Tupac already pointed out seceded not one but twice over slavery. What makes me angry is that this is history, it doesn't make todays Texans guilty of anything, yet time and again they can't resist trying to rewrite the past because of pride. That is not acceptable.

12-30-2011, 04:55 PM	#21
Pateeffelty Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 423 Senior Member	Why are you posting the percentage of the population that was enslaved? Were slaves more likely to be slave owners than non-slaves? Because its crappy revisionist wordplay talking about the number of 'slaveholders' as a proportion of the population. The only figures that matters a damn is the number of actual slaves, and the effect they had on the economy of the state. Texas was a nasty slave state that as Tupac already pointed out seceded not one but twice over slavery. What makes me angry is that this is history, it doesn't make todays Texans guilty of anything, yet time and again they can't resist trying to rewrite the past because of pride. That is not acceptable.
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