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  Free Blacks who owned Slaves 1830

4/18/2015

 
Black slave owners -1830

  There are pieces of history that often escape our attention.  Schools tend to focus on a very narrow portion of history which is unfortunate as it does not provide us with an accurate picture of the times.

     In a much earlier post I talked about slaves still being held in New Jersey as late as the 1860’s.  While I found that to be incredible what I am reporting today seems almost unthinkable. Throughout early American history there were incidents of Free blacks who purchased and owned slaves.  Most often this was a case of one person gaining their freedom and then purchasing family members, a wife, children, parents, etc.  The idea was then to emancipate them.  In 1830 The US undertook a census to determine how many black slave owners there were in the U.S.

    For a more in-depth look at this interesting portion of history you can consult the Ancestry.com Database Free Negro owners of slaves in the united states in 1830…together with absentee ownership of slaves in the united states.   In many cases, it appears that a free black man would purchase his wife, but not emancipate her until   she completed a probationary period during which, if she did not please him, he would sell her for a profit.

   In many states in 1830 black slave owners enjoyed the same social status as their white counterparts, attending the same churches, sending their children to the same private schools and gathering together in places of amusement and entertainment.  Inter-racial marriage was not uncommon among slave owners in the south.

   While slavery was still in practice in the north in 1830, black slave ownership appears to have been unique to the south, with Louisiana having by far the largest population of black slave owners.  In several states there were cases of Black slave owners holding many slaves and owning large plantations but this was far more prevalent in Louisiana than anywhere else in the United States.

  The following is a list of Free Black slave owners with 20 or more slaves in 1830 pulled from the above mentioned document.

ALABAMA

NAME                                      #SLAVES OWNED              
P.T. Harris                                     24

David Moneck                              27


FLORIDA

Gabriel Perpall                              39


GEORGIA

Betsey Perry                                   25


LOUISIANA

Augustin Bory                            20


Georges De Landre                 46

Widow Zacharie Honore’        21

Madame Antoine Dubuclet        44

Madame Ciprien Riccard             35

Sophie Delhonde                         38

LeFroix DeCuiel                                  59

Joseph Curiel                                        40

Antoine DeCuire                                    70

Leandre Severin                               60

Domnick Maytoier                               25

Louis Meytoier                               54

Augustin Meytoier                         25

Susan Meytoier                               20

Ve Rai Rillieux                                49

Victolce Deslonds                           52

C&S Dusman Ferrand                     38

Martin Lenormand                         44


Martin Donatto                              75

Francis Jerod                                       33

Valarien Osame                                27

Jean B. Muillion                                52

Fils Honore’                                30

Verret Polen                              69



Maryland

Richard Harwood                   39

John Hungerford                  29


North Carolina

Charles Mallett                     36

John Walker                          44


South Carolina


Robert Venning         30

Samuel Walker           24

Thomas F. Capers      47

Daniel J. Waring          41

Lydia Burnie             41

John See               22

Hannah Solomon       20

Virginia

Joseph Bragg       23

William Daniel            32

William Brocken Brough      46


Curtis Carter                  22

Benjamin Taylor            71



 


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