Slave trade map
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3818053/posts
Indian slave owners
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3856486/posts
“Eight million whites lived in the South, but of these, fewer than 325,000 owned slaves.”
“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.”
Am I missing something? If 325K whites in the South owned slaves and only half of 500K blacks in the South were slaves, there would be fewer than 1 black person for each white person who supposedly owned a slave.
Are they counting married couples who owned a slave? Or was there some sort of slave co-op whereby multiple families shared a slave?
Did the white people own Indians as slaves? Other whites as slaves? Are they counting indentured servants as slaves?
Something seems to be wrong or missing.
Ping
According to “Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865,” by Tony
Seybert, “Most Native American tribal groups practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America.”
The paper itself
Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865 by Tony Seybert
https://mmslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/slavery-and-native-americans-in-british-north-america-and-the-united-
states.pdf