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User ID: 83822902 United States 07/17/2022 05:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Black Slaveowners By Larry Koger Black Slaveowners By Larry KogerJanuary 7, 2016 This essay is the introduction to Larry Koger’s book, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. Black slaveholding is a historical phenomenon which has not been fully explored by scholars. Graduate students of history are often surprised to learn that some free blacks owned slaves. Even historians are frequently skeptical until they discover the number of black masters and the number of slaves owned by them. To many readers, slavery was an institution exclusively utilized by white slaveowners. The fact that free blacks owned slaves has been lost in the annals of history. Yet at one time or another, free black slaveowners resided in every Southern state which countenanced slavery and even in Northern states. In Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves, according to the federal census of 1830. Many of the black masters in the lower South were large planters who owned scores of slaves and planted large quantities of cotton, rice, and sugar cane. In 1860, for example, Auguste Donatto, a free colored planter of St. Landry Parish in Louisiana, owned 70 slaves who worked 500 acres of land and produced 100 bales of cotton. About 600 miles to the east of Louisiana in the county of Sumter, South Carolina, William Ellison, a free colored planter, used the labor of 70 slaves to cultivate 100 bales of cotton in 1861. In South Carolina, Robert Michael Collins and Margaret Mitchell Harris used their slaves to till the soil of Santee Plantation and grew 240,000 pounds of rice in 1849. But the majority of the large colored planters lived in Louisiana. In 1860, Madame Ciprien Ricard and her son Pierre Ricard, free mulattoes of Ibeville Parish, owned 168 slaves. The joint operation of mother and son used the labor of slaves to produce 515 hogsheads of sugar in 1859. Yet not all of the black masters were planters or from the South. In fact, the city of New York had eight black slaveowners who owned 17 slaves in 1830. In short, the institution of black slaveowning was widespread, stretching as far north as New York and as far south as Florida, extending westward into Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri. Less than 50% [ link to www.abbevilleinstitute.org (secure)] There's a man in a white house with blood on his mouth! If there's Knaves in the North, there are braves in the South. We are three thousand horses, and not one afraid; We are three thousand sabres and not a dull blade.
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 81977857 Australia 07/17/2022 05:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Black Slaveowners By Larry Koger Plenty of white slaves back then too.
Funny how the history books don't like to remember that either. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7664763 Canada 07/17/2022 05:16 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Black Slaveowners By Larry Koger You guys don't understand. The only documented evidence of people being brought over on ships were of Europeans.
They rewrote your slave narrative as coming to the brave new as an immigrant.
No! They were the real slaves. |