{"id":20499,"date":"2012-02-10T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20499"},"modified":"2012-02-10T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:26:02","slug":"black-slaveowners-free-black-slave-masters-in-south-carolina-1790-1860","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20499","title":{"rendered":"Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

McFarland<\/a>
\n2012 [Originally Published by University of South Carolina press in 1985]
\n300 pages
\n6 x 9
\nSoftcover ISBN: 978-0-7864-6931-4<\/p>\n

Larry Koger<\/strong>, Historian<\/p>\n

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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\u2019s<\/a> diverse population of African-American slaveowners, the book demonstrates that free African Americans widely embraced slavery as a viable economic system and that they\u2014like their white counterparts\u2014exploited the labor of slaves on their farms and in their businesses.<\/p>\n

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 others\u2014primarily mulattoes<\/a> born of free parents\u2014were unfamiliar with slavery\u2019s dehumanization.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n