This is what is colloquially known as bull puckey.
In the Lower South 36% of white families owned slaves.
In the Upper South 25.3% of all white families owned slaves.
Total percentage for the whole CSA: 30.8%.
In the Union Border States 15.9% of all white families owned slaves.
7% of black free men owned slaves.
Possible, though I doubt it. Reference, please.
I also fail to see how it is relevant. Black men enslaving blacks (or whites, or any other color) is every bit as evil.
slavery was and still is evil. I will agree with you on that. But you made the statement that it was due to racists in the new world. I point out that is not the case. it was business.
Here is an article written about in WND that references another article by Henry Gates. Gates, if you remember, is the black professor who Obama had a beer summit with. Here is the first article.
http://www.wnd.com/2010/05/149113/
In this article you might take note that it gives the following information; “One of this nation’s most distinguished black historians has discovered and reported that in North Carolina, alone, there were 721 slaves owned by 232 black slave owners. … I was able to reach Dr. (John Hope) Franklin by phone this week. I asked him if North Carolina was any kind of rarity in having black slaves owned by blacks. ‘No,’ he replied. ‘I would estimate that there were surely more in Louisiana, South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland.’”
The second article is the one mentioned in the WND article. It is the actual article by Gates. While it does not include the statement I gave about blacks making up 7% of the slave owners, it does give a good history of the black involvement in the slave trade.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0
Here is an article about blacks who owned slaves. It gives the percentage of blacks who owned slaves in the South as 2%.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2821/before-the-civil-war-were-some-slave-owners-black
Here is a very good article written about the percentages of whites who owned slaves. Not the amount you said for sure. It lists the amount at 1.4% of whites did.
The article below gives the percentage of blacks who owned slaves in NO as 28%. Here is a cut and paste from this article: According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country’s leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
There are more articles. I did a search on Yahoo asking “what percentage of blacks owned slaves” and came up with this.