To: rxsid
It’s estimated that upwards of 27% of New Orleans’ 5,000+ Free Negroes owned one or more slaves.
To: Ancient Man
Its estimated that upwards of 27% of New Orleans 5,000+ Free Negroes owned one or more slaves.
Just gotta go three or four paragraphs down...
According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860, New Orleans had 10,689 non-slave Black residents, or free people of color as was a phrase of the era. Of those over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city, according to Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, Americas leading African American historian.
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