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A Black American slaveowner was an extremely rare thing.
According to a study by Black historian Carter G. Woodson, 3,777 free Black people owned 12,907 slaves in 1830 — about one-half of 1% of the two million people enslaved in America. And because Black people had no legal rights in many states, many of those people were slaveowners in name only. Some of them had purchased their kin. Others technically owned themselves after buying their freedom. And, as Woodson notes:
Part 1 of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings and mischaracterizations of America’s slaveholding past.
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