flacaltenn
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Did Black People Own Slaves?
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
How Many Slaves Did Blacks Own?
So what do the actual numbers of black slave owners and their slaves tell us? In 1830, the year most carefully studied by Carter G. Woodson, about 13.7 percent (319,599) of the black population was free. Of these, 3,776 free Negroes owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States, so the numbers of slaves owned by black people over all was quite small by comparison with the number owned by white people.
I really don't blame you for searching out confirming articles that assuage your black guilt..
But even Louis Gates reports that in 1830 there were nearly 3800 blacks owning 13,000 slaves. That's not family protection dude.
To find the serious slavers you have to look at wealth. Because slave owning on an industrial scale went with the money. So I don't doubt that at the LOW end of the scale --- SOME of this was somewhat beneficial ALTHOUGH -- it was still technically slavery. It was slavery to do it for ONE YEAR.
There were institutionalized black slave owners in America before the South even HAD an economy...
5 of the Wealthiest Blacks Who Owned Slaves in America - Racism In America
Anthony Johnson was born in Angola and brought to the US to work on a tobacco farm in 1619. He married a black female servant while on the farm and once freed, maintained his own successful farm with 250 acres and both black and Irish indentured servants. According to colonial records, Johnson is best known for not only being one of the first Black slave masters, but also for having the court rule in favor of him “holding” slave John Casor indefinitely.
[[[[ OMG -- a black man owning WHITE SLAVES in America. I hope I'm related. Will be my meal ticket out of reparations. !!!!! ]]]]]
William Ellison Jr, born April Ellison, (C. April, 1790 – 5 December 1861)
William Ellison Jr was a slave who purchased his own freedom at 26 and shortly after his wife—Matilda, and children’s as well. Ultimately, Ellison became the wealthiest black master in all of South Carolina. He owned 60 slaves and more than 1,000 acres of land at his death.
[[[[ Purchased his way to freedom at 26. God Bless America. ]]]]]
Antoine Dubuclet (1810 – December 18, 1887)
Was born in Louisiana to free black parents, Antoine Dubuclet, Sr and Rosale (Belly). His father was part owner of a successful sugar plantation known as Cedar Grove. After his father died, Dubuclet took over the plantation along with the 70 slaves. He eventually married a wealthy black woman, and when she died, he inherited several properties, making him the wealthiest free black slave master in Louisiana by 1860.
Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina
Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry were two of the wealthiest free black masters, each owning 84 slaves in 1830. They were known for not practicing a “benevolent form of slaveownership. The blacks considered their slaves as chattel property; bought sold, mortgaged, willed, traded, and transferred fellow blacks; demanded long hours in the workshops and fields; severely disciplined recalcitrant blacks; and hunted down escaped slaves.”
[[[[ Not a nice man rescuing family members.. ]]]]]
Widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards
Widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards owned a large sugar cane plantation and held the largest number of slaves–152–in Louisiana.