My Huguenot ancestor arrived in NYC in 1680 with nothing...
His 3 sons were 14, 8, and 6 and 2 girls 2 and 4...
He and his sons worked hard without the aid of black slaves and when he wrote his will in 1712, he owned 3 big parcels of land in New Rochelle with a house on each which he gave to each son...
A lot of those black slaves were owned by other blacks...
Yes, “ A lot of black slaves were owned by other blacks...”
There were thousands of blacks who owned slaves. They even owned large plantations. There were 3,000 blacks who owned slaves in just New Orleans. But it was blacks who sold their fellow blacks into slavery.