African-American slave owners

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African American slave owners were African Americans who owned slaves during slavery in the United States. Black slave owners were relatively uncommon as "of the two and a half million African Americans living in the United States in 1850, the vast majority was enslaved". There were an estimated "242 black planters, defined as property owners with more than twenty slaves, in the American South in 1850."

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