[Bar-Face]

"Well, yeah. They were slaves"

Not all of them. I would suggest you look at the 1850 census records for New Orleans. Several Black Slave owners. This is the real hidden history of the pre Civil War South. Free Blacks also owned slaves.

[Larry Lucido]

True of course, but the article makes reference after reference to use of slaves, not Freemen or black slave holders.

[Founding Father]

Black Slave owners

Talk about messing up a reparations claim.

Good catch, by the way, referring to the number of Blacks that owned slaves in pre-war Orleans Parish. That little nugget of info never sees the light of day.