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Given what I've been learning on the subject, I chouldn't be at all surprised to find that, in as cosmopolitan a town an New Orleans, every free household had at least one domestic slave, and anyone with a business two or more (being much cheaper than hired help).

Except the white households you mean. After all if 72% of all slaveholders in New Orleans were slaveholders then that would mean only 1100 of the 28,000 or so white families owned slaves, maybe 2 or 3 or 4 percent. Again, does that make sense to you?

Yes, I looked at the census link you provided. Doesn't contradict Dr. Franklin, by me.

If you accept that almost all black families in New Orleans owned slaves and almost none of the white ones did. Personally I find it hard to believe.

I will ask, but not demand, that you at least acknowledge that Black agriculture, Black business, Black enterprise of all kinds existed and throve during the slavery era, in part at least because they participated in the institution, and that they voluntarily lent material and personnel support, for pay, to the CSA and its armed forces.

I will say that there is a grain of truth in what you say, but not to the extent that you apparently believe. I will also say that I expect Black History Month will also me marked with myths and partial truths from both sides of the equation.