By all accounts, there were more than just a few free blacks who owned black slaves, and while some of them “bought” family members to free them, many were treating them like…slaves. That strikes me as a problem for the reparations crowd.
Think of it as a new twist on an already ever-present problem. The one where you are telling people who never owned slaves that they need to pay some money to people who have never been slaves – but may be descended from … black slave owners.
So what do the actual numbers of black slave owners and their slaves tell us? In 1830, the year most carefully studied by Carter G. Woodson, about 13.7 percent (319,599) of the black population was free. Of these, 3,776 free Negroes owned 12,907 slaves, out of a total of 2,009,043 slaves owned in the entire United States, so the numbers of slaves owned by black people over all was quite small by comparison with the number owned by white people. In his essay, ” ‘The Known World’ of Free Black Slaveholders,” Thomas J. Pressly, using Woodson’s statistics, calculated that 54 (or about 1 percent) of these black slave owners in 1830 owned between 20 and 84 slaves; 172 (about 4 percent) owned between 10 to 19 slaves; and 3,550 (about 94 percent) each owned between 1 and 9 slaves. Crucially, 42 percent owned just one slave.
Pressly also shows that the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states, namely 43 percent in South Carolina, 40 percent in Louisiana, 26 percent in Mississippi, 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia. So why did these free black people own these slaves?
Not in any way a small problem, especially for the white hate crowd. There were, after all, black masters who had white slaves.
And for a time, free black people could even “own” the services of white indentured servants in Virginia as well. Free blacks owned slaves in Boston by 1724 and in Connecticut by 1783; by 1790, 48 black people in Maryland owned 143 slaves. One particularly notorious black Maryland farmer named Nat Butler “regularly purchased and sold Negroes for the Southern trade,” Halliburton wrote.
It is fair to say that whites could work off their slavery where blacks could not, but then what do you say about the black slaves of black slave owners who kept slaves not just for the life of that slave but their offspring? Descendents who may very well be unaware of their slave-owning family history (like Kamala Harris, who is not even black) lining up with the reparations crowd thinking they are owed something for an injustice perpetrated by their ancestors.
Perhaps we could just go back to the beginning—the part where no one paying reparations owned slaves and no one collecting them ever was a slave. I know that’s not entirely true. The Democrat party has enslaved millions of black Americans (again), trapping them in a cycle of dependency, crime, and lousy schools. And it’s not funny that Democrats advocated for slavery and were the “extremists” who tried to stop any effort at emancipation or to end discrimination.
This reminds me of something I’ve seen before and advocated; if Democrats feel that guilty, tax Democrats to pay for reparations. You’ve got their name and addresses in your GOTV records.
Slavery and discrimination by white Democrats is their legacy, and the black Democrat race pimps are today’s modern-day black slave owners working a system that traps their community in exchange for attention, money, and power (which they do not use to help anyone but themselves).
Start writing checks with your own money. We won’t stop you. And if you come up a bit short, you could ask the descendants of slave-selling black Africans to help you.
HT | The Root.com
