Black Slave Owners

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This paper examines the occurrence of black slave ownership. The paper discusses the modern novel fictionalizing the reality of black slave owners, "The Known World", written by the historical fiction writer, Edward P. Jones. The paper describes how the author builds a fictional web of society, associating slave ownership by other blacks as a sometimes awkward but mostly necessary outgrowth of economic and social growth.

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"Agriculture and even home ownership in the age before the civil war in the United States was a challenging endeavor, one that often required the work of more than one family. In most places in the U.S. the excess labor needed for the maintenance and growth of even a relatively small estate was taken from only one source, slavery. One long-standing debate associated with slavery is the state of freed blacks ownership of slaves. More specifically, currently there are mainly two arguments suggesting why blacks owned other blacks: the first is given by Carter G. Woodson thesis which suggests blacks owned other blacks for humanitarian reasons (to protect loved ones and the like) while the other argument, written by best by Larry Koger in "Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860" that black slave owners were no different than white masters and were involved in owning slaves out of a commercial desire to make money."

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