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2025-02-11 20:43:12 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 24A68C6FFC32F77FF13D58ABCE22CC18CE528205F99449A18AE40ED5E66E32B9
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This claim is extremely misleading due to the nature of 1860 census data. Only 1% of individuals were listed as slaveholders, but 25% of households owned slaves. The misleading stat has been publicly fact-checked and corrected over the last several years. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/16/fact-check-social-media-post-underrepresents-slave-ownership-1860/7980243002/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2017/aug/24/viral-image/viral-post-gets-it-wrong-extent-slavery-1860/
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