What percentage of the people in the south were slave owners? - About 1.4%
Who was the first slave owner in America? - An Angolan black man who adopted the European name of Anthony Johnson
Did any blacks own black slaves? Too many to count
In 1830, a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; 8 of them owned 30 or more.
In New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.
In 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves. The largest number, 152 slaves, were owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation.
Another Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000.
In Charleston, South Carolina in 1860, 125 free Negroes owned slaves; six of them owned 10 or more.
In North Carolina 69 free Negroes were slave owners.
In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the US census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.
The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves.
Even if all slaveholders had been white (and they weren’t), that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).
These statistics show that about 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves — as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.
http://newobserveronline.com/hidden-facts-about-slavery-in-america/
I am familiar with the information in your post, it’s correct.
Being as so many blacks were slave owners, how would we have ever ended slavery without the Civil War?
(I know it was economically unsustainable.)
Just thought I’d ask.