Sorry. No racial bias was implied, certainly not on your part, just simple statistics. There were 4169 slaveholders in Orleans Parish in 1860. According to you about 3000 of them were black. That means 72% of all slave owners in New Orleans were black. There were 149,063 free white people in Orleans Parish compared with fewer than 11,000 free black people. That means fewer than 7% of all free people were black. If there were 32,500 families in Orleans Parish, roughly 4000 of which were black, and if there were 1170 white slave owners, and assuming almost all were family men then, that means according to the statistics you quoted fewer than 4% of all white families owned slaves as opposed to three quarters of all black families. So again I would ask, does that make any sense to you?
Sorry. No racial bias was implied,
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