BEAUTIFUL CRESCENT, A History of New Orleans by Joan B. Garvey and Mary
Lou Widmer, Library of Congress Number 111-123 ISBN #0-9612960-0-3
    Page 97.  "In the city, there were many free Negroes with slaves of
their own.


Interesting... I once read the the biggest slave owner in  la. was
black....does anybody know a source that documents other races (other than
whites) that might have owned slaves ( in the U.S.)

Bill

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