Relative to their numbers in the population (27 million according to the 1860 census), a miniscule number of whites owned slaves. Eight million whites lived in the South, but of these, fewer than 325,000 owned slaves. What this means is that only 1.4 percent of the total white population consisted of slave owners, and only 4.8 percent of the white Southern population did so.
In glaring contrast, in this same year, there were 4.5 million blacks living in America, and 500,000 blacks in the South. Over half of these—261, 988—were freed men. In the city of New Orleans alone, more than 3,000 blacks owned slaves. That is, 28 percent of the free black population consisted of slave holders.
In 1830, the Census Bureau notes that free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves in the states of Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. As Halloway remarks, "Large numbers of free Blacks owned black slaves in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society."
Then there’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgVxc9aLs14
South Carolina’s ‘top’ slave owner was black.
In the case of many, though not all, black slave owners, that “ownership” had less to do with labor than simply being a freedman husband buying his wife, or parents, or kids, etc, in an effort to reunite family or friends. This would explain the disproportionate statistics.
And I guess that this was left out of our modern “Black History” stuff” Approximately 675,000 slaves were brought to American during the slave years, not 20,000,000 like Jessie Jackson would have you believe.
So, approximately 675,000 slave were brought here and approximately 660,000 men died in the Civil War., almost one-for-one. Kinda’ makes this reparations crap seem silly.
Wonder when that’ll be taught in our race-baiting, “hate-whites” history classes.
Slavery was an abomination and I had nothing to do with it and I don’t feel any guilt.
Does the fact that some blacks owned slaves absolve any slave owner or society that condoned slavery from the abomination of the institution of slavery?
Then both the black slave owners and the white slave owners are in the same place as the dead merderers, rapists and child molesters.
May they all be in hell.
Excellent, thanks for posting.
I don’t give a whit
I don’t care who owned slaves 200 years ago
I care about more recent issues
But I like u as a poster make no mistake
bfl
Always the 1 percent. Somethings never change.
What percentage of African slaves were sold into slavery by black people?
bkmk
A Williamsburg tour I was on once mentioned that the first slaves in the colonies were white.
More on their origins:
I remember when the kid in Annapolis was found.
I believe this is wrong.
Of the 4.5 million blacks in the USA, more than 2/3rds lived in the South.
Do you have a source? Not doubting, but I was taught otherwise.
Oh good gosh. Slavery has been a common human institution among all races for all of our recorded history. It’s still very much in practice today, especially among Africans and mohammedans. It was white Christians in Europe and America that ended slavery among the civilized. Those white Christians should be celebrated rather than defiled.