Black Slave Owners
It is commonly believed that all slave owners in the United States were white. This is untrue. [11]
In 1860 there were at least six blacks 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 black slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000 [12]. That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978 .[13]
In Charleston, South Carolina in 1860 125 free blacks owned slaves; six of them owning 10 or more. Of the $1.5 million in taxable property owned by free blacks in Charleston, more than $300,000 represented slave holdings. In North Carolina 69 free blacks were slave owners. [14]
In 1847, a black slave owner, William Ellison, owned over 350 acres, and more than 900 by 1860. He raised mostly cotton, with a small acreage set asid
2007-03-24
19:37:26
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Also know there were many 1000s of white slves, Indian slave and many other foriegn slaves.
Don;t let people try to make you feel guilty about slavery. We are all the new generations who had nothing to do with it.
2007-03-24
19:39:45 ·
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Anyone willing to add to this and can direct them to the site, gets my vote.
2007-03-24
19:42:17 ·
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Jezebel, gon't be ignorant!
Im not trying to do anything but state facts. I have an interracial family and I have taught my children not to be rasist.
I have half black grandchildren and love them but, I will not teach them hate like you are insisting.
2007-03-24
19:53:23 ·
update #3