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.
Dilsey Pope of Columbus, Georgia, a black woman born free, purchased the man she loved in order to marry him. After a particularly bad fight, Pope, in a move that would impress Lorena Bobbitt, sold her husband to a white slave owner. They soon reconciled but the white man refused to sell her husband back.
Freed slave Nathaniel Butler owned land outside of Aberdeen, Maryland. The land made him some money but his real cheddar came from tricking run-away slaves into believing his home, a mere 20 miles from the Mason-Dixon line, was a slave sanctuary. He would hide slaves long enough to find out who owned them and more importantly, what was the reward for their return. If the price was right Butler returned them. If the reward was low he would buy them and resell them for a profit. Butler was considered cruel by other slave traders and white slave owners. Butler was so hated that slaves tried unsuccessfully to kill him on several occasions.
Good for them. Looks like they didn’t depend on the tax payer supporting them.
WHITE people were slaves too , so may as well stop talking about it every week !!!! More Whites were Slaves !!!!
At the time of slavery, it was an acceptable means of providing labor. People seem to not realize that the slave owners provided total care for these people including food, clothing, and a roof over their heads. That’s far more than bringing an immigrant in and paying low wages that the labor has to provide his own food, lodging, etc with.
Whites are still the slaves in this country !!! NO affirmative action or NAAWP for them = No Equality !!!!
Slavery goes way back to the beginning of Man & there were FAR more Other Than , Black Slaves > FACT
Give Whites Reparations owed !!!! They fought all the wars & died & suffered while others stayed home !!!!
I remember from the history books we learned from that back as far as the Civil War the facts were the south treated the slaves better than the north. It is all recorded that the black, children on the plantations were schooled with the plantation owners children, they were housed as families, not separate. If they worked well they were rewarded with their own land and were a lot of the time treated as extended family and were given their freedom. Those slaves in the north did ot fare as well families were divided and sold. Worked real long hours in factories earning little and poor living conditions. Their are a lot of regrets but I t is history we can’t erase it but learn from the errors. The truth is we all deserve to live the best life possible. Work hard pray and respect each other. Question free offers and shortcuts there are a lot of scammers out there if something seems too good to be true walk away. Jobs should be available to the most qualified. Education, good parents, and a good work ethic will get you to the life you want.
I didn’t know that. As a White boy, I wants me some what da call it…. Reparations
I agree, but they are erasing history every day. Sad indeed.
It’s a shame that the majority of black Americans don’t know their own history. Proof? If they knew their history then why are they mostly Democrat?
Whites today are desendants of Heroes who fought & died in ALL the Wars in Far greater numbers than Anyone
else in the world , WHO SAVED the World !!!!
The crybabies of today forget they would be DEAD & gone or Never born if not for the WHITES of the world !!!!