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Many Founders deliberately avoided public discussion of their faith Historian David L Holmes uses evidence gleaned from letters government documents and second-hand accounts to identify their religious beliefs. . Sowell also notes in Ethnic America: a History citing historians Clement Eaton and Eugene Genovese that three-quarters of Southern white families owned no slaves at all. Most slaveholders lived on farms rather than plantations and few plantations were as large as the fictional ones depicted in Gone with the Wind in "The Real History of Slavery," Sowell draws the following conclusion regarding the macroeconomic value of slavery:.