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2024-05-23 12:41:12 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 144FEC45D8D5B7FF4310F24D28EB973138699021F4F0ADA822DED63AE7733DB5
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Misleading. By 1860, 20 of the 35 states had outlawed slavery. In the 15 slave-owning states, the percentage of families owning slaves ranged from 3% to just shy of 50%. In ten of those states at least 25% of the families were slaveholders — some nearly double that. https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/04/03/us-citizens-slaves-1860/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/16/fact-check-social-media-post-underrepresents-slave-ownership-1860/7980243002/
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