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sagehen11/17/2011 9:09:00 pm PST

re: #245 ggt

Well, you see …

Pre-Civil War there were many African-American’s who had, for whatever reason, secured their freedom. Some decided to stay in the South and compete with the Whites. They bought land and slaves and grew their own farms —some into respectable plantations.

Being a freed slave and then buying your own slaves is insane to most of us in 2011. But an individual who did this accepted slavery as a natural state and felt accomplished that he could become a Master.

Like Rome …

“Many”?!?!

A few in Maryland and Louisiana — but in most of what became the confederacy there was no such thing, by law, as a free black man. If a master for some reason were disposed towards freeing any, they had to leave the state and go be free somewhere else.