Ebook: Black slaveowners: free black slave masters in south carolina, 1790-1860
Author: Koger Larry
- Tags: African American slaveholders, African American slaveholders--South Carolina--History, African Americans--Employment, African Americans--Employment--South Carolina--History--19th century, Race relations, Slavery, Slavery--South Carolina--History, Slaves--Social conditions, Slaves--South Carolina--Social conditions, History, African American slaveholders -- South Carolina -- History, Slavery -- South Carolina -- History, Slaves -- South Carolina -- Social conditions, African Americans -- Employment -- South
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: McFarland & Co
- City: South Carolina
- Language: English
- epub
Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but this authoritative study reveals the extent to which African Americans played a significant role as slave masters. Examining South Carolina's diverse population of African-American slaveowners, the book demonstrates that free African Americans widely embraced slavery as a viable economic system and that theylike their white counterpartsexploited the labor of slaves on their farms and in their businesses. Drawing on the federal census, wills, mortgage bills of sale, tax returns, and newspaper advertisements, the author reveals the nature of African-American slaveholding, its complexity, and its rationales. He describes how some African-American slave masters had earned their freedom but how many othersprimarily mulattoes born of free parentswere unfamiliar with slavery's dehumanization.
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