This article deals specifically with the statistic that "only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves." (For information about free blacks who owned slaves, these claims have been addressed in an earlier ...

John Oliver Laughs at ‘Cluelessness’ of CNN Host Pointing Out 1860s Were Bad for Women – to a Black Man “I mean it’s true, but also, maybe not the worst thing people didn’t have the ...

For all its current shortcomings, the United States government remains intact, and the issues it faces are not as resistant to compromise as slavery, which means that 2011 was not as bad as 1860 ...

On April 2, 2024, the claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" went viral on X (formerly Twitter): Though the 3.3 million people who viewed this statement (at the time of this ...

“I love the cluelessness of looking at a Black man and saying that the 1860s were bad because women didn’t have the right to vote. I mean it’s true, but also, maybe not the worst thing people didn’t ...