How many African-Americans not slaves?

Answer 1

Not sure if this helps. According to KGB in 1860 some 3,000 blacks owned nearly 20,000 black slaves. The facts are only a minority of whites owned slaves while a majority of blacks owned slaves..... Bet you didn't learn that in school.... Me either

Yes I did learn it in school. The reason, and only reason black Americans bought black slaves was to give these slaves FREEDOM. Most black slave owners bought their relatives and or friends of relatives in order to keep the families together but to insinuate that black ownership of slaves was to oppress black slaves as the white owners did is ridicules. In the year you write of above, 1860, NO ONE knew slavery would end five years later. Again. The reason these 3000 or so blacks ( ex-slaves themselves who made enough money ) who owned slaves, actually saved enough money to purchase the ownership of their family members and friends in order to keep them safe (free from harm of the white owners) and to keep their family as one unit without ever getting lost in the shuffle of white slave owners who sold family members apart from one another.... GOT IT NOW?