[NovemberCharlie]

Not quite true Census counts all people woman and children included. So if they were 8 million in the south and each family had say 2 kids ( might be low ) they were about 2 million families . Therefore about 19% owned slaves or even higher if the families were bigger

And the same could apply to the black slaveholders mentioned in the article. New Orleans is the only data given, so assuming it was representative of the entire South, that 28% comes to 104% of free black families owning slaves. Hmm. It would be nice to know for sure how the data breaks down.

[MozarkDawg]

New Orleans is the only data given....

My husband tells me there were several black slaveholders in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The bulk of the “black” slaveowners in the south were Creoles in Louisiana. The French (and Spanish) were much more likely to acknowledge their mixed-race children, educating them and allowing them to inherit. Over the course of a several generations, the amount of black blood in an individual might be small—quadroons, octaroons, etc—but they’d still be considered “black” under the binary laws of the day.