could be, but since I posted the article to back up my claim, stop the straw man argument, okay?
Now, lets google black slave owners in Charleston:
http://www.teachingushistory.org/lessons/BlackSlaveOwnersinCharleston.html
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
Slave holding among the mulatto class in South Carolina was widespread according to the first census of 1790, which revealed that 36 out of 102, or 35.2 percent of the free Black heads of family held slaves in Charleston City. By 1800 one out of every three free black recorded owning slave property. Between 1820 and 1840 the percentage of slaveholding heads of family ranged from 72.1 to 77.7 percent, however, by 1850 the percentage felt to 42.3 percent.
http://slaverebellion.org/index.php?page=the-black-slave-owners
And since I live in Dixie now, I would think that when black americans and white americans all tell me that blacks had almost FIFTY percent of the slaves in South Carolina...
I cant find that 50% on line in any history, but to a man, they were all taught it in SC where I live
And only in the Confederate world are facts and figures considered "strawman arguments". It was your damned claim. I posted figures that questioned the logic of such a ridiculous figure. And you post more crap without any sources at all. It's almost like when you get called on one wild claim your solution is to post even more wild ones. Like this one:
Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city."
So again, let's look at the figures. In 1860, there were 10,689 free blacks in New Orleans and the claim is that 3000, or 28% of them, owned slaves. Well that percentage has to be wrong right from the beginning because that figure of 10,669 is free blacks of all ages, from under age 1 up to over 100. So if you reduce that to just adults over 19 then the number of free blacks is 5,550. So what you really want us to believe is that 54.1% of all free black adults in New Orleans owned slaves. Really? But wait a minute, it's highly likely that most of those men were married to most of those women. So at one extreme that would mean there were 3000 black slave owners but only 2,775 free black families. More slave owners than families to own them. How much sense does that make? And even at the other extreme it would mean that close to every free black family and every free black male or female owned a slave. That makes even less sense.
And if that wasn't crazy enough, in a city and Parish that had a total free population of 160,007, free blacks made up about 6.7% of that total. Adult blacks made up about 3.5%. But of the total number of 4,169 slave holders you want us to believe that less than 4% of the population comprised 72% of all slave owners. Does that make any sense at all to you?
Short answer is that no, it makes no sense at all. But that doesn't matter to the hard-core Confederate supporter like yourself because I've come to the conclusion that you all will believe literally anything, no matter how crazy or idiotic or improbable, if it makes Lincoln and the Union look bad or the Confederate noble and holy.
Here's my source. Feel free to check my math.
I cant find that 50% on line in any history, but to a man, they were all taught it in SC where I live.
If that's what they're teaching then I think it's more a condemnation of your school system than anything else. Not only is your history crazy but your math really stinks.