That’s incredible. There were only two slaves in Nebraska?
I learned a lot about black slavery yesterday from a fellow Freeper who sent me this link:
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
There were thousands of black slave owners. Some of them owned large plantations and were rich - rich enough to buy their own pew on the first floor of the white Episcopal church. They described one who was a slave breeder (a practice frowned on at that time) and he sold his own children into slavery - one of whom he freed in his will.I think he also owned a factory, run by slave labor, making cotton gins.
According to the article being a slave wasn’t exactly like we learned in history class. Some freed slaves even petitioned to return to slavery because it would provide them with food and shelter that they couldn’t provide themselves.
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