Chapter 12

While reading chapter 12 i came upon the statistic that in the early 1840s 90 percent of Alabamas legislators were slave owners. It makes me curious about the other states because the south was predomidently in favor of slave owning so it would make sence for the legislators to be slave owners.. The book also said that the legislators(obviously) voted for things in favor of the slave owning population. But the book also says that in georgia only about 56 people were slave owners. So how would the government know if these places were really in favor of slavery or if only the aristocrates were in favor of it. How did things end up changing if everyone in legislator was pro-slavery.