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To: .45 Long Colt
According to famed historian John Hope Franklin, Freedman in New Orleans were more likely to own slaves than whites.

Technically correct. But a lot of those were freedmen who had bought their own wives and children out of slavery, then never formally freed them. It cost money and a court appearance to do that, and you had to prove that the slave you were freeing would not become a ward of the state.

52 posted on 03/13/2014 7:18:12 PM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: SeeSharp

John Hope Franklin never addressed the selling of slaves by African Negroes. Most of his “black” history is bunk.


72 posted on 03/13/2014 8:47:12 PM PDT by laweeks
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