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Slave Stories History 'Forgot.' Black People Owned Slaves Too
PJ Media ^ | 6-19-21 | Kevin Downey Jr.

Posted on 06/20/2021 12:51:55 PM PDT by DeweyCA

Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry were wealthy landowners in South Carolina’s Colleton District in the 1830s, in what is now Charleston County. The couple owned 84 slaves each for a total of 168, at a time when most of their peers owned a handful. Their slaves worked their plantation and made them rich. Angel and Horry also traded slaves for profit, showing no regard for dissolving slave families. They were no kinder or crueler to their slaves than anyone else. They were considered “slave magnates” because of the number of slaves they owned. They were referred to as the “economic elite.” They were also black.

Black people owned black people in all 13 original colonies and in every state that allowed slavery. Frequently, freed black people would go on to own more slaves than their white neighbors. In 1830, nearly a fourth of the free black slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves, and several owned more than 30, far surpassing their white slave-owning neighbors.

Yes, black people, frequently former slaves themselves, owned slaves. While it can be said that many black people owned family members to protect them and keep them close, black slave owners also bought and sold slaves for profit. Renowned African-American historian and Duke University Professor, John Hope Franklin, wrote “The majority of Negro owners of slaves had some personal interest in their property. There were instances, however, in which free Negroes had a real economic interest in the institution of slavery and held slaves in order to improve their economic status.” Franklin also wrote that roughly 3,000 free black people in New Orleans alone owned slaves.

... it’s now about equity. YOU need to pay for what other white, and black, people stopped doing over 155 years ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blackslaveowners; reparations; slaveowners; slavery
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To: Bull Snipe

Crickets?

Figured.


101 posted on 06/20/2021 6:00:49 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bull Snipe

You’re suggesting a plantation owner should enter into a sharecropping agreement with someone with zero skill set. Someone who had never seen a cotton plant or plow in their life. Nonsense.

Sharecropping would have been an alternative to slavery AFTER the workforce had acquired the skillsets.


102 posted on 06/20/2021 6:07:34 PM PDT by moehoward (.)
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To: moehoward

It took 65 years to teach blacks how to grow cotton?


103 posted on 06/20/2021 6:11:43 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Eagles6

Yeah pretty sure I read that somewhere. Anyway the point is Indian had slaves, they regularly enslaved other Indians - their enemies !


104 posted on 06/20/2021 6:14:42 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily
Yep.

After the Cherokee were moved to Oklahoma, they had many black slaves and many fought for the Confederacy.

They also battled pro Union Cherokee.

After the war they refused to free their slaves and federal troops were sent.

105 posted on 06/20/2021 6:24:35 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: Eagles6
After the war they refused to free their slaves and federal troops were sent.

Stand Watie was the last Confederate general in the field to cease hostilities at war's end.


106 posted on 06/20/2021 6:34:00 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: higgmeister

I forgot about that!


107 posted on 06/20/2021 6:48:45 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix circa 1984.)
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To: servantboy777
"Although abolition of slavery was indeed on many minds, it was not the sole reason for the civil war."

The war between the states was about slavery the same way that the American Revolution was about tea.

108 posted on 06/20/2021 7:33:09 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: .44 Special
"Major routes led to Egypt, the Arabian peninsula, Madagascar (forwarding to Asia)"

What happened to the black slaves sent to Arabia and Asia? Do their bloodlines still exist in those places, or did they die off, or what?

I am also curious about descendants of the European slaves captured by Barbary pirates. They seem to have vanished into history.

109 posted on 06/20/2021 7:45:49 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: Bull Snipe

It’s irrelevant how long it took. The fact is your “why didn’t they start out sharecropping” argument is idiotic if they had no idea how to do it “in the beginning”.

Good luck!


110 posted on 06/20/2021 8:12:04 PM PDT by moehoward (.)
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To: caww

Well her Grandfather was a slave trader.


111 posted on 06/20/2021 10:03:11 PM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: bray

Yes indeed he did....but Harris is such a bimbo...if she were nt so preoccupied with her own physical presence in any given situation she might take note of what’s going on around her...she’s just not.

Been said she’s way in over her head and it’s playing out exactly that.


112 posted on 06/20/2021 10:29:32 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: moehoward

It is relevant. Its took the complete destruction of the Southern cotton economy via war to shift from a plantation based system to share cropping. If share cropping was so obviously more profitable, (you have yet to prove that point) why didn’t the Southern planters ad\opt it earlier?


113 posted on 06/21/2021 3:08:17 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: DeweyCA

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114 posted on 06/21/2021 5:03:04 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: UnwashedPeasant

lol...right?


115 posted on 06/21/2021 9:43:19 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: nutmeg

Bookmark


116 posted on 06/21/2021 9:43:59 AM PDT by nutmeg (God bless you and thank you, Rush)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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117 posted on 06/21/2021 12:25:51 PM PDT by southland ( I have faith in the creator Republicans freed the slaves. Heb 13:2 )
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To: UnwashedPeasant
The war between the states was about slavery the same way that the American Revolution was about tea.

Oh let me guess. It was about state's rights?

118 posted on 06/21/2021 12:31:04 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Both wars were over Government by Consent.


119 posted on 06/21/2021 12:35:21 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: JBW1949; Bulwyf
One of the most accurate statements about that war I have read....

The first practical mechanical cotton harvester was introduced in the 1930s. The first mechanical tobacco harvester was introduced around 1955. Pesticides came out around the mid-20th century as well. So if industrialization was going to cause the end of slavery then it had eight or nine more decades to run.

120 posted on 06/21/2021 12:43:25 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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