The Facts About American Slavery

Politically correct media and school textbooks give the impression that slavery has primarily been a sin committed by white people who enslaved blacks.  The fact that only about 25 percent of the Americans in the South had slaves before the Civil War is commonly not mentioned, nor is the fact that (according to the United States census of 1830), for example, 407 black Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, alone owned black slaves.

Alvin J. Schmidt, Under the Influence: How Christianity Transformed Civilization, p. 273