No they're not!
Your numbers are false and misleading because they assume that wives, children and other household members of slave-owners are not part of the same family, or somehow don't enjoy the benefits of slave-owning wealth.
It's utterly misleading to say, as you do, that only 3.2% of Virginians owned slaves, when fully 25% of Virginians lived in slave-owning homes.
“It’s utterly misleading to say, as you do, that only 3.2% of Virginians owned slaves, when fully 25% of Virginians lived in slave-owning homes. “
And there is the rub. ‘fully 25% of Virginians lived in slave owing homes’
25%....and yet the left and some here who call themselves conservatives want to hang the entire South and all their descendants, when only 25% had ANYTHING to do with slavery. I have several ‘Southern’ relatives who volunteered and died fighting for the Union, who never owned a slave. I was pretty smug about my ancestors being ‘slave free’ for 50 years, then I found out my Cherokee relatives did indeed own slaves and fought for the Confederacy.
Some of you ‘Northerners’ are wearing out your broad brush. If your family has been in this country for more than a few generations, I could find a ‘Trailer trash Southerner in YOUR backgrounds, too! Maybe that’s the problem, are you proud Eastern/Northerners new comers with NO sweat equity in this game? Just askin’....
“when fully 25% of Virginians lived in slave-owning homes. “
What’s the source of that 25% figure? That is 1 in 4 lived in a home and since a home had at least 4 people in a home that would suggest more than 25% of homes had slaves. Slaves were not cheap nor were they for simple house chores. I’d love to see the census on slaves in homes for 1865.