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The document discusses the history of black slave ownership in the United States. It notes that many free black slave owners in the South were mulatto and identified more with whites due to their lighter skin color. Free blacks in Charleston formed separate churches and only married other mulattoes. Census records show thousands of free blacks, disproportionately in Louisiana and South Carolina, owned black slaves. The majority of urban black slave owners were women who inherited slaves from white fathers o
- Author
- David Seidel
- Language
- EN