A good website for Carter G. Woodson is at:
http://www.chipublib.org/002branches/woodson/woodsonbib.html It lists
another book by Woodson specifically on the subject of black masters
published in 1924.

FREE NEGRO OWNERS OF SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE UNITED STATES IN
1830: TOGETHER WITH ABSENTEE OWNERSHIP OF SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES IN
1830, ed. Washington: ASNLH., 1924; Repr. Negro Univ. Press. E185.W8873

A less balanced view of the man is on
http://www.ritesofpassage.org/h_woodson.htm ...

                                         Anne


At 01:54 PM 2/27/03 -0500, you wrote:
>         In 1860, there were at least six black slaveholders in Louisiana who
>owned 65 or more slaves.  The largest was Clara Richards who owned 152 slaves
>that worked her sugar plantation.  The second largest black slaveowner was
>Antoine Dubuclet, another sugar planter, who owned over 100 slaves and who
>had an estate of $264,000 in 1861.   There were slaveholders with equal
>numbers of slaves in South Carolina, Maryland, and Georgia.
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>        One book that discusses black slaveowners is The Negro in Our History
>(1922) by Carter G. Woodson.  He was a professor of history at UVA for a
>number of years and is considered the father of black history in the US.  Dr.
>Woodson argued that black slaveholders were predominantly freed slaves who
>bought their relatives and held them as slaves as a means of giving them
>their freedom.  This view is largely disregarded these days due to all the
>records that have been found of black slaveholders buying and selling slaves
>for profit just like white slaveholders, and conveying their slaves upon
>their deaths along with the other property in their estates.
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