"…In 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves The largest number, 152 slaves, were
owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation. Another Negro slave
magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars)
$264,000 . That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978.
In Charleston, South Carolina in 1860 125 free Negroes owned slaves; six of them owning 10 or more. Of the $1.5 million in
taxable property owned by free Negroes in Charleston, more than $300,000 represented slave holdings. In North Carolina 69
free Negroes were slave owners…."
Book: DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT - BLACK SLAVEOWNERS By Robert M. Grooms