DIXIE'S CENSORED SUBJECT BLACK SLAVEOWNERS

americancivilwar.com ^ | 1997 | Robert M. Grooms

[agrace]

Wow, I NEVER had any idea that there were black slave owners here in the US. A simple Google search turned up supporting articles as well. Of course we'll never hear about this in the regular media. This should be emailed to Rush and Sean Hannity. Alan Keyes too - he had a lively reparations discussion on his show tonight.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Thanks for the ping.

Dixie bump!

[billbears]

Of course you won't. Heck, there are some even in the conservative ranks that deny this. To admit it muddies the waters on the reasons of the war and the actual agitators of hostilities between the two nations. Bump for later. Thanks for the ping shuck.

For Truth
For Dixie

[stainlessbanner]

Thanks for the ping - Methinks most the blacks consumed with reparations and getting their check are unprepared to deal with the subject of black slave owners! Great article.

[aomagrat]

I don't think Sean Hannity would touch this. A few months ago the Confederate flag was featured on Hannity and Colmes, and was attacked by both of them.

[agrace]

That's too bad.

[Twodees]

Sean Hannity is a republican, not a conservative. There's a difference. Most republicans are liberal socialists.

[wasp69]

There is a book, you can buy it at Amazon, it's called Black Slaveowners in SC and concentrates mostly on the Georgetown and Charleston areas but it also gives good data on other localities.

[stand watie]

YEP!

[WhiskeyPapa]

Not quite true Census counts all people woman and children included. So if they were 8 million in the south and each family had say 2 kids ( might be low ) they were about 2 million families . Therefore about 19% owned slaves or even higher if the families were bigger

That's right. In point of fact, there were more owners of slaves in the south than there were owners of real property in the north. Slavery was clearly the cause of the war. Posting this article about black slave owners is an attempt to make more palatable the unpalatable -- the whole CSA experience.

Walt

[Fiddlstix]

Bump
To read later

[one2many]

Socialist Bump Comrade

[one2many]

FYI

[4CJ]

'To admit it muddies the waters on the reasons of the war and the actual agitators of hostilities between the two nations.'

I am shocked, shocked I tell ya! I want to know why certain parties aren't interested in the truth.

[B4Ranch]

When the Blacks became landowners they also became slave owners.

[goldstategop]

They're not targeted by the reparations proponents. All of which goes on to show the only rationale for compensating victims of slavery is skin color, not one's condition or length of service in bondage. The existence of black slaveowners is embarrassing to the reparations advocates, which is why their presence is suppressed or explained away. It illustrates the truth of human nature, that when it came to engaging in the evil of trading in and possessing other human beings as mere property, blacks were not any less venal in that regards than whites. So what does one do about the descendants of black slaveowners? By any moral reckoning they should be properly excluded from any claim to compensation.

[wardaddy]

Reparations are a joke.....I'm a bit distracted by the Israel thing and can't think of anything pithy to add....but good thread.

[one2many]

bump

[MSOD]

There is a work of fiction based upon the history of Black Slave Owners. The book “The Known World” by Edward P. Jones is a surprising and fascinating read.

MSOD

[Non-Sequitur]

Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.

That same census noted that there were 211,000 white people in Orleans parish and only 4200 total slave owners. So we're supposed to believe that out of a white population of 211,000 only 1200 owned slaves. And out of a black population of 11,000 over 3000 owned slaves? Does that sound likely?