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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reparations?

He!l no.

A large number of black freemen owned slaves themselves.
How do you sort our who was slave and slaveowner?
There were also several all black confederate regiments. In the Northern Black Regiments, the officers were white; in the Southern Black Regiments, the officers were black.
Nevr heard of a black confederate regiment? Try the Louisiana Native Guard. Actually there were 2 Louisiana native Guard Regiments, one fought for the Confederacy and the other fought for the Union.

No reparations.


56 posted on 05/29/2012 5:24:11 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End the racist, anti-capitalist Obama War On Freedom.)
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To: BuffaloJack

I’m glad you brought up the issue of Blacks who owned slaves.

There were thousands of black slave owners in this country. There were even black slave breeders who sold their own children into slavery. IIRC the first black to be freed became a big slave owner.


81 posted on 05/29/2012 1:12:08 PM PDT by ladyjane
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