Henry Louis Gates on black owned slaves
440,000 free Negroes in the South
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8EhhbTs0A
And THOUSANDS of them owned slaves
The Choctaw Indians owned slaves, some indian, some blacks. You don’t see the blacks boycotting the casinos though. And yes free blacks owned slaves also. Other Blacks sold them at the king of Dahomey’s ‘Slave Superstore’* in West Africa. Of course they sold captive women of all races also.
* not sure of all the facts on this as I wasn’t there. Neither were the comedians who write current US History books.