The Black Slaveowners of the Antebellum South: A Complicated Legacy
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The Black Slaveowners of the Antebellum South: A Complicated Legacy

The Antebellum South is often remembered in stark terms: a society rigidly divided along racial lines, where white planters held power over enslaved Black people. Yet, history reveals a more complicated reality. While most slaveowners were white, a small but significant number of free Black individuals also owned slaves. This little-known fact unsettles common assumptions ...