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Originally Posted by Richwood
Even in the USA there were black slave owners as was recently shown via records from the pre Civil War on Finding Your Roots on PBS. Probably some slaves that we would consider to be White too as laws in many slave states allowed anyone equal to or more than 1/16th Black to be considered Black and legally allowed to be owned as a slave. Also in the early colonies there were many indentured servants who were White and they were frequently treated practically as slaves and many were worked to death before working off their indenture.
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There were not just white and black slave owners either. There were Cherokee who owned plantations and slaves.
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