Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830

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Free Negro Owners of Slaves
in the
United States in 1830
Together with
Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the
United States in 1830
Compiled under the Direction of and edited by
CARTER WOODSON
G.
Editor of Tlie Journal ofNegro History
Washington, D. C.
The Associationfor the Study of Negro Life and History

Free Negro Owners
of Slaves
in the
United States in 1830
Together with
Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the
United States in 1830
Compiled under the Direction of and edited by
CARTER WOODSON
G.
Editor of The Journal ofNegro History
Washington, D. C.
The Associationfor the Study ofNegro Life and History
Copyright, 1924
By the Association for the Study of
Negro Life and History, Inc.
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FOREWORD
This statistical report on the free Negro ownership of
slaves was made possible in 1921 when the Director of the
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History ob-
tained from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial an
appropriation for the support of research into certain
neglected aspects of Negro History. This special report,
however, was not the objective of the Research Department
of the Association. It developed rather as a by-product.
In compiling statistics for the much larger report on Free
Negro Reads of Families in the United States in 1830, the
investigators found so many cases of Negroes owning slaves
that it was decided to take special notice of this phase of
the History of the free Negro.
The report on the Absentee Ownership of Slaves in
the United States in 1830 attached hereto developed in a
similar way. The investigators were impressed also with
the frequent occurrence of such wide separation of the mas-
ter from the slave. In noting ihe cases of free Negro
ownership it was a simple matter, then, to record also the
cases of absentee ownership, and it was done accordingly.
Carter Woodson
Gr.
Washington, D. C,
April 1, 1924
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