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Another Comment on Black Slavey Owners
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"Tarter, Brent (LVA)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:54:51 -0500
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It is worth noting that the vast majority of black slaveowners owned
relatives -- their children, wives, husbands, etc. They had to buy them
but could not free them under state law. So, they technically owned
them. Joe Fossett, Jefferson's blacksmith, spent much of his life after
he was freed, trying to purchase his wife and children from the many
slaveowners they were sold to. He technically would have owned these
relatives, unless he was able to get the country court's permission to
free them.

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