Further facts
Contrary to what we want to believe not all slave owners were white.
I do not recall the name but there is furniture on display at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, that was made by a BLACK master furniture maker. If, you do not appreciate fine furniture, it is a skill, a science, a business and an art. REMINDER-having your furniture in the Metropolitan Museum says it is the finest of the fine. Similar to winning the Olympics.
To be short- the history of this artist craftsman was that he learned to do fine woodworking. Typically of southern slave practice, if you had such a skilled worker your would allow him to do work for your neighbors. Your neighbors would pay the slave owner for the work and typically the slave got half of the money. This slave over many years saved enough to buy himself. His owner would need to be willing to allow him to do this. The former slave set up a shop. Again he saved his money. THE FIRST THING HE BOUGHT WAS A BLACK SLAVE. Not as we would want to believe-to buy a family member-to buy a woman he had affection for-NO HE WANTED A WORKER THAT HE COULD CONTROL-A SLAVE.
He was not the only one. At least 5% of the AS WE WANT TO BELIEVE EVIL SLAVE OWNERS-were BLACK.
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