|
thompsonx -> RE: On the All Lives Matter Issue (9/27/2015 12:12:40 PM)
|
ORIGINAL: Kirata
quote:
ORIGINAL: thompsonx
ORIGINAL: BamaD
Actually some of the biggest slave owners in the south were black.
Actually you are full of shit.
John Carruthers Stanly -- born a slave in Craven County, N.C., the son of an Igbo mother and her master, John Wright Stanly -- became an extraordinarily successful barber and speculator in real estate in New Bern. As Loren Schweninger points out in Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915, by the early 1820s, Stanly owned three plantations and 163 slaves, and even hired three white overseers to manage his property...
At his death on the eve of the Civil War, [William] Ellison was wealthier than nine out of 10 white people in South Carolina. He was born in 1790 as a slave on a plantation in the Fairfield District of the state, far up country from Charleston. In 1816, at the age of 26, he bought his own freedom, and soon bought his wife and their child. In 1822, he opened his own cotton gin, and soon became quite wealthy. By his death in 1860, he owned 900 acres of land and 63 slaves...
According to Johnson and Roark, the wealthiest black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1860 was Maria Weston, who owned 14 slaves and property valued at more than $40,000, at a time when the average white man earned about $100 a year. ~Source
Four million slaves and so far you have listed three blacks who were slave holders. You did not mention that the overwhelming majority of those slave owning blacks came from santo domingo and were living in spanish/french florida/ louisiana when the u.s. bought louisiana[8|]
quote:
ORIGINAL: thompsonx
How many states in the south could a free black person live? How many free land owning blacks existed in the south? Which states allowed this?
Free persons of African descent lived in every state of the Union, their numbers growing from about 50 thousand in 1790 to almost 490 thousand in 1860, with more than half of them living in slave holding states (1860 U.S. Census).
Undergraduate history students are usually amazed to learn of the large number of free blacks in the ante-bellum period. Graduate students are often surprised to learn that some of these free blacks owned slaves. History professors are frequently skeptical when they hear the number of free black slaveholders and the numbers of slaves they owned... ~Source
Free blacks in the south amounted to a single digit percentage of the blacks in the south. The majority were old women and the infirm who had been "dumped"/maunumited because they were no longer productive slaves.
"Slaves without masters by ira berlin" ISBN-13: 978-1565840287
The willfully ignorant, of course, just cover their ears and cry "raaacist".
Those who spout half truths and whole lies ignore the fact that by the 1850s, we find , only Delaware, Missouri and Arkansas still allowed legal manumission of free blacks, and Arkansas, on the eve of secession, threatened its small population of free blacks with an impossible choice: self-deport
or be re-enslaved
|
|
|
|
