Question

Planters who owned large plantation houses with at least fifty slaves made up about ______ percent of the white population in the South in 1860. *

Answer 1

less than 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The South largely depended on agriculture and developed plantations where cotton, tobacco, indigo, and other crops were grown. Southern people depended on the slave system. Slaves used by the planters to do work in the fields. Slaves owned by everyone in the South. Planters with more than 50 slaves consisted of less than 1 %, which was extremely rare. In 1860, about 11,000 white Southerners owned more than 50 slaves.