Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860

"A chapter of African-American history that will shock many readers."

No, that is impossible!!!!!!!! Slavery has ALWAYS been white thing.

Go to http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/1995/3037.html

"In the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more (2)....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."

Go to http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

No, it is a lie!!!

"The exact breakdown of black slaveowners by category does not yet exist; for some insights into the life of at least one black master, Johnson and Roark's book provides a fairly detailed examination of what are necessarily incomplete records. William Ellison was born a slave in 1790, and developed a skill as a master craftsman, a cotton gin maker. He bought himself out of slavery, apparently with the active encouragement of his master -- who may well have been his father -- and became, in turn, a slaveowner himself -- and wealthier than 90% of white Southerners. Indeed, he owned more slaves 'than all but the richest white planters.'"

Go to http://www.claytoncramer.com/blackmasters.htm

"Four types of profit-seeking black slaveowners emerged in the South. Those who owned large plantations or farms were most likely the offspring of former white masters who left the land to their children through an inheritance. Small farmers used additional slave labor to help with their crops. Free black artisans owned businesses and preferred slaves over wage-earners. The final type of black, profit-seeking slaveowners were those who simply hired out their slaves to other farmers or employers for profit. Black slaveowning for profit began in the 1700s and some even kept their slaves until the Civil War. These owners were, again, those of biracial ancestry who inherited their slaves from their white fathers. The Southern black slaveowners were so passionate about the institution of slavery and their ties to the white race that they decided to fight for the South in the Civil War and defend their right to keep slaves. "

Go to http://www.angelfire.com/ne/bluesurf/words/theunfinishedtale.html

We have to keep this a secret. We have to say this was NEVER a part of Black History. We have to be sure to keep out of Black History studies facts that we don't like.

Let's just pretend it NEVER happened. Blacks NEVER were slave owners.

How else are we going to have honest Black History?