To: sheltonmac
What is also interesting is that owning slaves was not a "white" thing in America. Free Blacks, Mexicans and Indians owned Blacks slaves (and Indians also had slaves before Whites ever came to North America but that is another topic).
For example, about one-third of the 10,600 free blacks in New Orleans in 1860 were slave owners.
6 posted on
06/13/2005 6:13:00 AM PDT by
2banana
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To: 2banana
How many of those were actually mulatto children of slave masterrs who inherited the slaves? Many of the free people of color in Louisiana came about their slaves by inheritance didn't they? How many blacks owned white people?
12 posted on
06/13/2005 6:16:37 AM PDT by
cyborg
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To: 2banana
For example, about one-third of the 10,600 free blacks in New Orleans in 1860 were slave owners. You can only get that high of a percentage by applying the "one drop rule" and counting French Creoles as black.
49 posted on
06/13/2005 7:28:16 AM PDT by
Ditto
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