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To: Windflier
I highly doubt you can find credible documentation to support that.

Why do you doubt that? You could find the information if you wanted to.

According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. 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.

In 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves The largest number, 152 slaves, were owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation. Another Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000 (3). That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978 (4). http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

31 posted on 01/18/2014 11:44:12 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I read the whole front page of the link you provided. I’ll admit that I’ve never seen that information anywhere before today.

Thanks.


34 posted on 01/18/2014 12:49:22 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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