[aruanan]

I’d like to know what Walter Williams says about it.
He busted the myth of only whites owned slaves.

It was in Fogel's Time on the Cross. According to records from New Orleans, there was a greater percentage of free blacks than whites in the South who owned slaves (and some of the operations were very large).

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

According to records from New Orleans, there was a greater percentage of free blacks than whites in the South who owned slaves (and some of the operations were very large).

Louisiana was an anomaly compared to the rest of the south. Under the French (and to a lesser extent Spanish) influence, the children of white fathers and slave mothers were far more likely to be acknowledged and to inherit property. But even generations removed from that racial mixing--quadroons, octaroons, etc.--these Creoles were still counted as black. This is why New Orleans alone seems to have more black slaveowners than much of the rest of the south combined.