History.
via Francis Porretto:
‘…Yet at one time or another, free black slaveowners resided in every Southern state which countenanced slavery and even in Northern states. In Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia, free blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves, according to the federal census of 1830….’
How…inconvenient for the whining black grievance-mongers and their white “progressive” apologists.