[2banana]

If next, they have the grandson of a free black who owned slaves, I am going to faint!

[crz]

One of the first slave owners ever in the colonies was..you guessed it! A BLACK MAN! Little known or reported fact in our history..always overlooked by the commie news media and extortionists.

[Michael121]

Check Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story"

There was a Black Doctor who had 1,000 slaves. During the Story, Harvey read from his diary. But I can't remember the name of the Doc.

He worried about owning men, especially of the same race, but then justified it because it was legal.

[stand watie]

FYI,my home county in TX has a living (at least she was at Christmas,03. she was born 12/24/1910, if i remember correctly.) daughter of a freeman who had owned 2 slaves. (one was his first wife!).

several years ago, i interviewed her for the local NETCC newspaper.

she still owns the 40 acres that her father's first wife received from the Freedman's Bureau, as a "femme sole", who had been "in a previous condition of servitude".

(NOTE:the lady is the 2d youngest daughter of the freeman & his 3d wife. her father was about 60 YO at the time of her birth.)

free dixie,sw

[TheBattman]

http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/south/charles/charles3.htm

Domestic slavery was quite common in West Africa, although the Europeans organized the trade to a much greater magnitude and value. Free black slaveowners resided in states as north as New York and as far south as Florida, extending westward into Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. According to the federal census of 1830, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia. The majority of black slaveowners lived in Louisiana and planted sugar cane. The majority of black masters had not been slaves themselves. Yet, the ranks of black slave masters were diverse: some acquired slaves as soon as they had accumulated enough capital after their own freedom, others received slaves with their own freedom from their white masters, and others had been free for several generations.

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