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  1. P.S. on that @Jeff_Jacoby oped. It cites a page which asserts that "Practically speaking, the institution of slavery did not help [whites who owned no slaves]." #Twitterstorians, let's list some ways non-slaveholders could benefit from slavery. I'll start. pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html
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      White southerners who owned no slaves could rent the labor of enslaved people through a practice known as "hiring out." An example: delphi.tcl.sc.edu/library/digital/slaveryscc/the-hiring-out-system.html
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        The slave trade also "spread wealth," as @abufelix12 writes in Soul by Soul. A sale occurred @Every3Minutes, & as people sold were moved south they "had to be transported, housed, clothed, fed ..."---creating opportunities for whites in those industries to profit from the trade.
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          Many white southerners who did not own slaves had relatives who did. Only 10% of enlistees in the Army of Northern Virginia in 1861 owned slaves themselves; but 46% either owned slaves OR lived with someone who did. See Joseph Glatthaar's General Lee's Army (2008).
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            And large slaveholding planters hired white overseers, many of them too poor to own enslaved people themselves. Jobs like that are only one of the ways that slavery could directly or indirectly benefit even non-slaveholders in the antebellum period.
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