[ROCKLOBSTER]

thousands of blacks who owned slaves in the south

Thousnds? Probably democRATs.

and thousands of whites who did not

Probably not RATs.

[ladyjane]

Thousands?

Yes. Thousands of blacks owned slaves. There were over 3,000 blacks in New Orleans alone who were slave owners. Some blacks in the south owned hundreds of slaves. Some were slave breeders. They sold their own children into slavery.