Part 1 of Essay
Critical Review: "Historians and the Extent of " "Only a minority of the whites owned slaves," "at all times nearly three-fourths of the white families in the South as a whole held no slaves;" "slave ownership in the South was not widespread;" "not more than a quarter of the whi ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... appears in the journal of Civil War History of 1972 entitled, "Historians and the Extent of " Olsen attempts to challenge the widely accepted notion that slave ownership was confined to only a few southern white plantation owners and that most of the white population was unaffected by it. The author spends nearly half of his thirty-seven paragraph article displaying the past and present attitudes of the general population through several case studies which he lists chronologically and explains in brie ....