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Offline vooke

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Negroes Owned Negro Slaves
« on: June 27, 2019, 09:13:00 PM »
What do I know,

I just learnt that negroes owned slaves,not many but they did own slaves for all sorts of reasons
https://www.theroot.com/did-black-people-own-slaves-1790895436
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Re: Negroes Owned Negro Slaves
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2019, 09:28:03 PM »
Not surprising.  I mean if there were Free Negroes, they likely would have been able to partake in the slave economy too.  These guys might have been even worse masters; think antebellum Clarence Thomas.
"I freed a thousand slaves.  I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

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