Slavery

Slavery Reading Response on: “Black Masters” and “The Slaveholders Dilemma” When the “Old South” in taken into consideration, generally one may think of large plantations, cotton, and African slaves that worked the land. Many people only associate the cruel treatments and slave holdings with the white plantation owners and white slave traders. Very rarely, if ever, does one hear about any slave holders or slave traders being of black or mulatto skin. This fact, however, seems to be a relevant part of history that is neither taught nor brought into the public eye. However, during the period of the “Old South”, although not as widely spread as white plantation owners with slaves, there were blacks that indeed did own slaves themselves. If fact in Charleston during 1860, 125 freed black slaves owned black slaves themselves; and six of them owning 10 or more. In fact, it is also said that of the $1.5 million in taxable property owned by free Negroes in Charleston during this time, more than $300,000 of that land represented slave holdings (Black Masters 62). During the period of the Old South, there is a very important story of a black man by the name of William Ellison. black, slaves, slave, white, masters, ellison, april, south, name, freed, during, old, william, owner, freedom, fact, class, blacks, time, seen, said, owners, owned, family, cotton, although, allowed, able, themselves, since, purchase, property, plantation, period, people, part