So you’re saying that 9/10 did not own a slave? Sounds like an overwhelming majority to me. The quote from Glatthaar ( Here’s the link, because you didn’t cite it yourself ) also cherry-picks the most slave-owning army in the CSA.

Not even getting into the fact that those who didn’t own slaves often engaged in the broader practice of the (ab)use of slaves and aspired to own slaves, and were quite openly fighting to perpetuate and expand slavery.

See: victims of propaganda.

I’ll copy my reply to another comment. You’ve seriously misinterpreted my argument, whether you know it or not.

My comment is a very, very basic application of Marxist history. The ruling class has always fought their battles through the proletariat. Nobody born in the antebellum South came into this world with a desire to own other humans or one day to be needlessly slaughtered in defense of such an institution. A lifetime of propaganda and social manipulation from the elites taught them that.

Identifying a victim of a greater injustice does not excuse the microaggressions they commit as an effect of being a victim themselves.