By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
October 15, 2026
This is a fact-based history lesson. The lesson is about black slaveowners. Larry Koger's book, Black Slaveowners, is well documented. Koger provides 34 pages of documentation listing the names of black slave owners and the number of slaves they owned in South Carolina and 38 pages of historical notes. Most free blacks only owned a few slaves, but some blacks themselves had plantations and had as many as 30 or 40 slaves.