Thursday, February 1, 2018

Free blacks who owned slaves in 1830

By far the most black slave owners were in Louisiana and Virginia, with nine pages of names and numbers, each page of two columns for each state. Ownership of 50 or more slaves is not uncommon.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slavery/JNH-1924.pdf

Listed are black slave owners in all states in which slavery was legal, including Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and others.

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