CountryBoy
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

As usual, these articles leave out some History……

And I’ll bet that they didn’t LEARN this in History class……
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According to the 1860 census, there were over 261,000 FREE Blacks living in the South and that 23% (or about 60,030) of FREE Blacks in the South owned slaves…..so 16% ( or about 1 in 6 ) of ALL slave owners in the South were made up of Free Blacks and a lot of them fought on the side of the Confederacy. Again, omitted from the History books….

In 1860 there were at least six free blacks in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves with the largest number having 152 slaves. There were over 3,000 FREE Blacks in New Orleans that owned slaves…. I wonder what their names were…….

In Charleston, South Carolina in 1860 125 free blacks owned slaves; six of them owning 10 or more.

And some years back , I came across some photos ( on-line ) that showed White Slave children in New Orleans.

In addition, FREE Blacks in the South were able to OWN Land, while the FREE Blacks in the North could NOT own Land…..

And FREE Blacks in the South fought side by side with other Southerners for the Confederacy, while Northern Blacks were segregated to fight in their own companies.

ALL OMITTED from the History books.

    CountryBoy

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