A simple yes would have sufficed.
A simple yes would have avoided the fact that free blacks bought their families but could not free them according to law. Something you racists like to use in your claims that lots of Blacks owned black slaves.
There was no law saying you couldn't free slaves. Nice try though. Although there was a law (Fugitive Slave Act of 1850) regarding runaway slaves.
And yes quite a few blacks did own slaves. As a matter of fact in Louisiana, the largest slave holder was black.
In 1860 there were at least six Negroes 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 Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000 (3). That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978 (4).
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