[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I believe that the fact is that a large majority of the black slave owners were mulattos (or quadroons or octaroons--one drop of black blood put you in the black category) in Louisiana, where under the French (and carrying over into subsequent decades), mixed race children could inherit their father's property and writing your will to do so was not uncommon.

For instance, sources indicate there were 125 black slave owners in South Carolina, 89 in North Carolina, and 3000 in New Orleans alone.

[WashingtonSource]

What about the black and brown slave sellers (Arabs and black Africans) who sold their people and other people into slavery? You can’t blame slavery on white people when black and brown were on the other side of almost every deal.