The Cheerleaders on the Bus

The Cheerleaders on the Bus

birthright, manumission, or the purchase of their freedom. Of those, 3,775 blacks, living mostlv in the South, owned a total of 12,760 slaves. The vast majority of these masters had no more than a few slaves, but some in Louisiana and South Carolina owned as many as 70 or 80.
In most cases, Bumham says, the motive for ownership appears to have been benevolent. MosShepherd, for instance, manumitted by the ~irginia legislature for having provided infonna- tion about an insurrection in 1800, bought...

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