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.
Well, that’s mostly a look at the modern effects of slave patrols and descendants of the practice, but yes. Slave patrols were notable in that they included mostly non-slave owning white volunteers. It really shows just how deep the rot went. Slavery wasn’t ‘incidental’ to the Antebellum South’s existence as a society, it was the Antebellum South.
Slave Patrols: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol
https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing
Just letting people know what you’re taking about
Well, that’s mostly a look at the modern effects of slave patrols and descendants of the practice, but yes. Slave patrols were notable in that they included mostly non-slave owning white volunteers. It really shows just how deep the rot went. Slavery wasn’t ‘incidental’ to the Antebellum South’s existence as a society, it was the Antebellum South.