- Mar 11, 2015
- 100,782
- 107,880
- 3,645
That's less than 4 slaves per person. Don't try this with me son, I know the whole story.Wikipedia:
By 1830, there were 3,775 black (including mixed-race) slaveholders in the South who owned a total of 12,760 slaves, which was a small percentage of a total of over two million slaves then held in the South.[6] 80% of the black slaveholders were located in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.
There were economic and ethnic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and the Deep South, with the latter fewer in number, but wealthier and typically of mixed race. Half of the black slaveholders lived in cities rather than the countryside, with most living in New Orleans and Charleston. In particular, New Orleans had a large, relatively wealthy free black population (gens de couleur) composed of people of mixed race, who had become a third social class between whites and enslaved blacks, under French and Spanish colonial rule. Relatively few non-white slaveholders were substantial planters; of those who were, most were of mixed race, often endowed by white fathers with some property and social capital.
Most slaves purchased family members which essentially freed them. You are talking about 0.00638 percent of all slaves owned. 99 percent of the slaves were owned by whites. So again, talk about the story accurately instead of being disingenuous, and really, you should not be using this tactic with someone black.