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This 3 page paper discusses the act of owning slaves by freed blacks in Louisiana. Evidence given from census reports and various primary sources. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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perusal of primary documents and census records indicate that not only did freed blacks participate in the slave trade, but that they owned a good number of slaves themselves. Black-owned
slaves were sprinkled throughout the Southern states, and some in the North, but existed in the heaviest concentration in Louisiana. The Census of 1830 lists 965 black slave owners,
alone, in Louisiana. These black slave owners kept a little more than four thousand slaves between them(Frontpage). What is more is the fact that according to the 1860 census was
that of the nearly twenty-seven million whites living in the country at the time, only eight million of them lived in slaveholding states, and an even smaller percentage of those
actually owned a slave(Frontpage). Therefore, the other prevailing myth that all white people in the South owned slaves is challenged. What is interesting to note is that there was a
large collection of black plantation owners in Louisiana. This seems to have happened for several reasons. For one thing, Louisiana had emancipation policies whereby a slave could buy his freedom.
Many of the freed blacks managed to buy their freedom from their masters. In addition, the influence of the French nationality in Louisiana allowed for the difference of perspective between
the industry of holding an indentured servant as opposed to a slave. The other possibility is that Louisiana was a port state. The various portages allowed for the easy
influx of ideas, innovations and customs. As such, this area was fairly cosmopolitan and would have tolerated the holding of land by freed blacks. Therefore, one can summarize the occurrence
of black plantation owners in large numbers in Louisiana by stating that the cultural aspects of Louisiana supported the idea and were not threatened or bothered by it. Of
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