[netmilsmom]

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

[End Times Sentinel]

Well, on one hand, I've got a historian from the College of William & Mary, and on the other hand, I've got someone I've never heard of who read something on the intra-webs.

With all due respect to Wilma and Mary, I think I'll go with the anonymous person on the intra-webs.

[LS]

If other historians dispute it, then they are fools. A great deal of scholarship---solid stuff---has emerged in recent years about both blacks in the Confederate army and black slaveholders:

*Ervin Jordan, "Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia" for example cites the number 100,000 blacks in Confederate service. Most were NOT in combat or carrying weapons, but some were, and no one can seriously deny the number who were in uniform (largely on the promise of freedom if the South won).

*J.H. Segars, "Black Soldiers in Confederate Armies: A Collection of Historical Accounts" contains first-hand accounts of these soldiers.

*Charles Kelly Barlow, "Black Confederates"

*Larry Koger, "Black Slaveowners: Free Black Masters in South Carolina"

*Michael Johnson and James Roark, "Black Masters; A Free Family of Color in the South."

[mrmeyer]

Could you provide a source? I’d definitely like to read more about what Mr. Williams covered. Thanks.

[kalee]

I have previously related our experience at the Atlanta History Center where we witnessed them argue with and then turn away a young black Confederate re-enactor.
Even though he had documentation showing his ancestors were free blacks in New Orleans who owned slaves and who fought in the Confederacy, they refused to allow him to tell his story. It did not fit their PC presentation.
We happened to run into the young man later at Johnny Rockets and had supper with him. He told my children about his family and their history.

[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).