Not all American blacks share the same slave experience. Some blacks are descendants of black slave owners. Some descend from black slave breeders. There were many free blacks who owned slaves.
True that. (still think Obama is a poser)
“Most importantly, many Indians owned black slaves. By 1824, it is estimated that the Cherokee owned 1,277 black slaves; the Choctaw and the Chickasaw held over 5,000 blacks in slavery by 1860. Some mixed-blood Indians, such as the Choctaw chief Greenwood Lefore and the Cherokee chief John Ross, owned between 100 and 400 enslaved blacks respectively. And when the southeastern Indians were forcefully marched west to present-day Oklahoma by the American government in the infamous “Trail of Tears” in the 1830s and 1840s, as many as 15,000 enslaved blacks were taken with them.”
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_indians_slavery.htm
I do not even know where to begin with the sorting of that basket of laundry.