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SLAVERY |
Black Slave
Ownership - Did blacks own
slaves in America? |
According to
federal census reports, on June
1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5
million Negroes in the United
States, with fewer than four
million of them living in the
southern slaveholding states. Of
the blacks residing in the
South, 261,988 were not slaves.
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. |
The standard
image of Southern slavery is
that of a large plantation with
hundreds of slaves. In fact,
such situations were rare. Fully
3/4 of Southern whites did not
even own slaves; of those who
did, 88% owned twenty or fewer.
Whites who did not own slaves
were primarily yeoman farmers.
Practically speaking, the
institution of slavery did not
help these people. |
There is no way we can answer
all the questions that has been
asked about slavery. All
we can do is to help share the
facts and the truth.
SLAVERY IN ANY FORM IS WRONG.
One thing we need to do is
remember that from the beginning
of America till 1865, slavery in
America was a way of life.
As a matter of fact, slavery was
a way of life all over the
world in that time period. Over time, man
started to see the wrong in
slavery and his heart started to
change and so did history. |
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The War Between the States has been
over for 150+ years!
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO TOLERANCE
& FORGIVENESS? |
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