RE: N.C. Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, who allegedly said (years ago) that he'd be a black nazi (?), and would like to own slaves (*paraphrasing, only saw snippets from a cnn article today):
His perceived mental state aside: Hope this brings attention to actual BLACK HISTORY, which the Communists have been suppressing.
Black slaveholding is a historical phenomenon which has not been fully explored by scholars. Graduate students of history are often surprised to learn that some free blacks owned slaves. Even historians are frequently skeptical until they discover the number of black masters and the number of slaves owned by them…. The fact that free blacks owned slaves has been lost in the annals of history… In Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves, according to the federal census of 1830. ''(Just wait if/when they ever find out who New York and YALE University are named for!)
…In 1860, for example, Auguste Donatto…owned 70 slaves who worked 500 acres of land… Sumter, South Carolina, William Ellison, a free colored planter, used the labor of 70 slaves to cultivate 100 bales of cotton in 1861. In South Carolina, Robert Michael Collins and Margaret Mitchell Harris used their slaves to till the soil of Santee Plantation and grew 240,000 pounds of rice in 1849…. In 1860, Madame Ciprien Ricard and her son, Pierre Ricard, owned 168 slaves… Yet not all of the black masters were from the South. In short, the institution of black slaveowning was widespread, stretching as far north as New York and as far south as Florida, extending westward into Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri.
…A few black masters owned slaves in West Africa and transported their slaves to the New World…. Many of the black slaveowners of South Carolina were former slaves who rose from the shackles of bondage to the ranks of slave masters. Still others were one or two generations removed from slavery, and their parents and grandparents were slave masters who passed their human chattel from parent to child…https://archive.md/dIpFv https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/black-slaveowners/ https://archive.is/dIpFv
In the year 1862, William Ellison (whose house still stands) was not only a large slave owner in South Carolina; he was one of the wealthiest slave owners… However, he earned the lion share of his fortune by “breeding slaves” even though it was not legal in many Southern states. Ellison would secretly sell off most of his female slaves but would retain a select few for breeding purposes. He would usually keep most of his young males because they could perform the most work on his plantation. Ellison had the reputation of being a very harsh master. His slaves were usually hungry and poorly clothed. He maintained a building on his land that had no windows where he could chain slaves that had misbehaved. https://archive.is/tSBDe
…By 1850, Ellison had 37 slaves while his sons owned another 16. He was one of about 180 black slave masters in South Carolina at the time, most of whom were former slaves themselves…. 5 Powerful Slave Owners Who Happened to be Black https://archive.is/tSBDe https://themindguild.com/5-powerful-slave-owners-who-happened-to-be-black/ https://archive.is/J9Vd9