"22 Most economic historians feel the slave prices in 1860 were artificially high for a variety of reasons and that even without the War, they would have fallen, so these comparisons of wealth somewhat overstate the wealth of the South at the time."

Very interesting. Not only was the value artificially high, the number of slave owners, using the slave census, is so flawed that it inflates the true number of owners (that will never be known without great cost to research) to a great extent.

There is a clashing of ideas right now over the Irish Slave Trade. Now there are historians pushing that it was a myth and down playing the history as new and made up. I am interested to see where this leads.