this is not a fact for the U.S.
“In terms of sheer numbers, small slaveholders overwhelmingly dominate...among slaveholders they were the vast majority.” - James Oaks.
Amiri Baraka says the same in Blues People.
& Du Bois notes the role the poor whites in maintaining slavery
most slave owners in the South were small white farmers w/ less than 10 slaves, rednecks who couldn’t afford to enslave Africans often worked as overseers & slave catchers with dreams of one day enslaving Africans themselves. I’m not obfuscating anything, this is their history