Claim: "At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books  tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."
Fact-check: Viral post gets it wrong about extent of slavery in 1860
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2017-08-24T00:00:00