U.S. cities step up removal of Confederate statues, despite Virginia violence

[Gomig-21]

Well I'd really have to think about the technicalities of this. First off a slave was expensive enough not to be casually bought ( ~$40,000 in today's money). Unless that freed person was somehow earning a very good income (in the discriminatory South) without being a plantation owner (well maybe a Northerner)...I don't think it would be likely.

I do think there were definitely abolitionist groups pooling money together to buy and free slaves. It's possible or even likely their chosen point man was some freed person to do the purchasing. However I seriously doubt they would be allowed at the slave auctions due to discrimination. More likely negotiations with plantation owners for a resell.

If there were slave plantations owned by freed black men they were probably so few as to be inconsequential.

South Carolina’s largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.

William Ellison was a very wealthy black plantation owner and cotton gin manufacturer who lived in South Carolina. According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as “Ellerson”), he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina, but far from the largest overall slave holder in the state.

In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves.

http://www.snopes.com/facts-about-slavery/

@Desert Fox was right also about Native American Indians were also slave owners, although not in significant numbers.

The White House was built with slave labor.

 

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The confederate state freedom needs to be discussed in United Nation , NOW

 

[Desert Fox]

South Carolina’s largest slave holder in 1860 was a black plantation owner named William Ellison.

William Ellison was a very wealthy black plantation owner and cotton gin manufacturer who lived in South Carolina. According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as “Ellerson”), he owned 63 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina, but far from the largest overall slave holder in the state.

In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves.

http://www.snopes.com/facts-about-slavery/

@Desert Fox was right also about Native American Indians were also slave owners, although not in significant numbers.

The White House was built with slave labor.

Indeed.

Would also like to add that Black participation in the slave trade also extends to those Black Africans who often sold captives of rival tribes to European traders in West Africa, besides taking some Black slaves for themselves. Even though it was not done in the US but still worth mentioning in the wider context of Black participation in the African slave trade.

Also, Native Americans owned Black slaves as well and often faced many slave revolts in the Indian Territories.

Slave Revolts In The Cherokee Nation- Wikipedia