Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina 1790-1860
By Larry Koger.
Description
Most Americans, both black and white, believe that slavery was a system exclusively maintained by whites to exploit blacks, but Larry Koger’s authoritative study reveals the extent to which African Americans played a significant role as slave masters in the peculiar institution. By examining South Carolina’s diverse population of African-American slaveowners, Koger demonstrates that free African Americans widely embraced slavery as a viable economic system and that they—like their white counterparts—exploited the labor of slaves on their farms and in their businesses...
ISBN(s)
0899501605, 9780899501604
